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And warehouse workers union to pickup extra shifts at the port of los angeles so they can work 24/7 and unload twice as much cargo as they had been. >> working on these issues for months. i know its been up and front in the news in the last few weeks, but these are issues the president has been focused on since he took office. it's a fundamental challenge as the economy is turning back on and one he's been focused on from the first day. reporter: concerned about covid-19 for months, the government beefed up benefits for people not to work, and in august, a record 4.3 million workers left their...

Your district? >> i've got about 721,000 people in my district -- i can't give you an exact number and i don't think anyone can but i can tell you in a district like mine, rural appalachia where the average income is just a little over $30,000 a year, the preponderance of the people come from my rural district. >> the estimates if you aggravate the county numbers, it's 60,000 people at least. here's my question to you, there's no way the cbo can score this bill as cutting $880 billion from medicaid over ten years and for no one in your district to take it on the chin. >> well, i tell you what ...

Which will be marking up the bill on thursday. congressman, i want to start with simple stuff. do you know how many people in your district are on the exchanges? >> well, i can tell you how many people in my district, chris, are on medicaid expansion because you know medicaid expansion was a big part of what governor john kasich did. it's about 700,000 people in ohio that's on medicaid expansion and i'm going to make dagon sure that those people are not thrown under the bus and the bill we've got, the bill moving forward, that's not going to throw them under the bus. >> >> representative, do y...

For more, 12 years and prevailed. their argument? development takes an average of 12 years and a billion plus dollars. >> if we want people to invest in new cures for cancer and diabetes and aids and all of that, then you have to make sure that they're going have some chance to get their return on their investment. >> reporter: and keeping them honest, brand name biologics had major reinforcements to make their case. last year, pharmaceutical manufacturers spent more than $263 million in lobbying. do the math, more than $721,000 a day. in 2008, they gave $30 million in campaign contributions, ...

Bring the costs of the drugs down. to do that, the president wanted to give brand biologics exclusive rights for seven years before cheaper generics could enter the market. but the pharmaceutical industry lobbied for more, 12 years, and prevailed. their argument -- development takes an average of 12 years and $1 billion plus. >> if we want people to invest in new cures for cancer and for diabetes and for aids and all of that, then you have to make sure that they're going to have some chance to get their return on their investment. >> reporter: and keeping them honest, brand name biologics had ...