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2,000 transportation workers, department of transportation workers, and the third one is payments to doctors, medicare payments to doctors. tell us about that one. >> well, you heard senator harry reid call it the doc fix, if he was for the doc fix, why didn't he voted for it here, he voted for it in committee. but the doc fix this is a measure to fix what would have been a 21% cut in reimbursement for doctors for medicare, and, in fact, thad went effect technically on monday. doctors will be paid 21% less, reimbursed 21% less, for their medicare costs. 43 million people received medicare cove...

Again probably to continue in this tit-for-tat. >> going to be violated in the first bill brought to the floor after you passed it. as far as the doc fix is concerned, i have a history with the doc fix that i don't need to defend to the majority leader or to anybody in this body. just check with the kentucky medical association and all my doctors that i represent in kentucky. i think the gentleman's letter from louisville states the facts better than me. we want a country that my 40 grandchildren have the same abilities that i did growing up.

So it was a -- it was certainly not a partisan bill. and he was right, the other bill he talked about wasn't brought to the floor. i would also say this, madam president, it was paid for. not a cent of deficit spending, not a cent. it's interesting that my friend would talk about pay-go. he voted against pay-go. he's talking about pay-go now. he voted against it. he voted against it right here on the senate floor. if he so liked pay-go, why didn't you vote for it. he voted against it. the senator from kentucky voted against pay-go. that has no applicability to the jobs bill that passed because...

Power base known as washington, d.c. it's too bad senator mitch mcconnell and some of the elected officials on your side of the aisle do not have the backbone of your sense of decency when it comes to keeping their promises to the american people. and for security sake, i'm just going to read his first name. it says sincerely, robert. from louisville. now, there's no doubt in anybody's mind that i have supported extension of unemployment benefits, cobra health care benefits, flood insurance, highway bill. i was the one who proposed the medicare doc fix on a permanent basis in the finance commi...

Decency when it comes to keeping their promises to the american people and for security's sake i'm just going to read his first name, it says, sincerely, robert. from louisville. now there's no doubt in anybody's mind that i have supported extension of unemployment benefits, cobra health care benefits, flood insurance, highway bill, i was this one pro posed the medicare doc fix on a permanent basis in the finance committee. small business loans, and all the other things that are in this temporary bill. so i just want to set the record straight. the majority leader has all the tools in his kit ...