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Future of the immigration reform bill in the senate, this is what he had to say. >> yeah, i'm not doing an immigration press conditions here. as you know we're going to be on that matter for another week or so. we'll see how it guns 0 you the. >> joining us now is democratic congressman john yarmuth of kentucky. good afternoon, sir. is that fairly indicative of the leadership style of the man you've come to know? remain silent on issues of national importance while running away with so-called scandals involving the irs and stuff like this? >> exactly. he has the chauffeur style of leadership. ...

Narrow the gaps there and come up with some -- even a longer list of areas that we agree on. so, what i do is, since i want to make sure that mitch doesn't give me a time clock tally again, let me first go to mitch. and i don't know who wants to make a presentation with respect to insurance reform. >> mr. president, i'd like to yield to dr. bissani, to pick up this conversation about insurance reform. >> thank you, leader boehner, and thank you, mr. president. i come at this as a physician, a cardiovascular surgeon, with over 20 years of practice, doing open-heart surgery, dealing with patient...

Comment. >> mr. president, let me interject one quick point here very quick in terms of trying to keep everything fair, which i know you want to do. to this point the republicans have had 24 minutes, the democrats 52 minutes. let's try to have as much balance as we can. >> i think the republican leaders are controlling the time for the republicans if i'm not mistaken. am i right? >> i don't think that's quite right but i'm just going back and forth here, mitch. i think we're just trying to go back and forth, but that's okay. paul, i was about to call on you. if that's all right. go ahead. >> a...

Appendectomy or colonoscopy or what not to enable consumers to shop around. where is the best price? we all know there is a wide disparity in what hospitals charge for their procedures. i think it helps consumers, it helps our people. fraud and waste, we've talked about that. we have major provisions in our bill on fraud and waste. mr. president, i compliment you because in your proposal you go even farther. >> it took some additional ideas from folks like congressman ross. >> they're great ideas. unnecessary readmission rates, et cetera. the main point is we basically agree, there's not a lot...

So what i do is since i want to make sure that mitch doesn't give me a time clock tally again let me first go to mitch and i don't know who wants to make the presentation with respect to insurance reform. >> mr. president, i'd like to yield to dr. bastani for this conversation about -- boustany for this conversation about insurance reform. >> thank you, mr. leader and mr. president. i come to this as a cardiovascular surgeon dealing with patients who have come to me with very, very challenging cases at very difficult times in their lives. along with my colleagues, dr. coburn and dr. barrasso, ...