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Game. >> why is the federal government spending money to erect barricades to keep veterans out of this memorial? there are 14 bills sitting on harry reid's desk to fund vital government, fund the v.a. the senate won't even vote to fund the v.a. >> so who was it who started playing politics with this thing in the first place? >> ted cruz, i would say ted cruz has probably done himself a world of good in the republican party primary process if he wants to run for president in 2016. i wrote in the "washington post," while doing himself good he's really badly hurt the party he affiliates with. he ...

Hours and if i haven't been able to instill in you and senator moynihan some sense of, my gosh, all we want to do is to have the laws applied, and if you don't give a darn about that, then don't come down here, but don't whine and moan with factories and jobs leaving this place. >> al demato, former new york senator spoke for 15 hours and 14 minutes making it the second longest filibuster speech in history. d'amato also clocked in at 23 hours and 30 minutes, the second longest filibuster. the record for the longest goes to south carolina's strom thurmond who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes. ...

Entitlements down the road? >> no. i would not support medicaid cuts when you have 50 million americans who have no health insurance today at all. when you cut medicaid what do you think happens? where do people go when they get sick? they go to the emergency, they get sicker they go to the hospital and you spend more money on their needs or perhaps they're one of 45 million americans who die this year because they don't have health insurance. i don't think that's a solution. talking about health care reform, yes, we have to answer the question why we spend almost twice as much per person on h...