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Implemented for medicare and no one thought it would cut the fixed drug costs in terms of that. practices are are deciding what do they do now and it as real dilemma. >> greta: all of these medicare patients paid taxes for decades. they have been good citizens and expected their medicare and congress said when they passed all these laws that they weren't going to lay a glove on o the medicare. in the sequester they weren't going to lay a glove on the medicare but they were so stupid the way they wrote that how to they are hurting the medicare patients. there is a solution if they would exempt ...

Congress are expected to spend, you know, 30 hours a week in call time, dial for dollars. they need to take the toxic influence that money's having on campaigns and elections and we need to go for work five days a like like everybody else in america does. >> and chris, he followed that up by saying when he came to congress in the '70s. they worked 48 out of 52 weeks. now, it's 32 weeks. if you hear constituents, they'd say, i'd like to work 32 weeks. does he have a point? >> yeah, he has a point. listen, i worked up they're not that long ago. you know, i'm not going to sit there and say that f...

Interview with paul ryan about guy marriage. you can say that when you're not running for national office. when you're running for national office, you're going to have a harder time being able to dictate what topics you want to discuss. it's different when you're on a national ticket because everything is on your plate. whether you like it or not. how does he -- how will paul ryan handle that? >> it's also different when you've been acting as a surrogate, when you can redirect back to the issues where you're comfortable. so it will be a big challenge for paul ryan. at the same time, he's had ...

You can say that when you're not running for national office. when you're running for national office, you're going to have a harder time being able to dictate what topics you want to discuss. it's different when you're on a national ticket because everything is on your plate. whether you like it or not. how does he -- how will paul ryan handle that? >> it's also different when you've been acting as a surrogate, when you can redirect back to the issues where you're comfortable. so it will be a big challenge for paul ryan. at the same time, he's had some experience with that, as members of cong...

Like that. it's a very nice vegas package. they're doing constituent work which is very important, connecting with those folks in their district and hearing about their problems and concerns and that working help them further out in washington, d.c. as far as what they can get done in the six days the house is back in january of this month as well as the three days in the senate, really nothing. there will be a few perhaps ceremonial bills of commemorating something or something that's very partisan on both sides. the one thing you will see is that there is a conference committee that has be...