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[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [no audio] >> senator kennedy's body continues to lay in repose. there are 20,000 people in line to view the casket. it will remain open. everybody walks through. we will have more coverage from the library in boston at 2:00 a.m. a memorial service will be held at the library 7:00 a.m. eastern. later in the day, at 530 eastern -- for 30 p.m. eastern, senator kennedy will be buried at arlington national cemetery in virginia. we will have coverage on saturday. on tomo...

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] ♪ and for our first half hours morning, your thoughts on banks according to this storm is refined in the papers this morning. -- according to the stories in the papers this morning. your thoughts on the u.s. banking system and if you believe is at risk. we will start with "the wall street journal" with the headline on banks. the federal -- fdic said about 5% of the nation's banks, 3 up banks05 at the end of march and 117 at the end of june 2008. problem banks had a com...

have a very little effect on it. there are a good many issues that we have some attitudes toward. we support a premium conversion, which is a benefit for federal employees, which allows them to pay for the health insurance premiums with pretax dollars. retirees do not have that benefit. i tried to get the measure attached to the health care reform bills. congressman connolly supports a stand-alone bill which was introduced in maryland. . . we favor expanding medicaid eligibility but the problem is how he is going to get paid for. we favor a portability credit for retirees which are i...

i think we have a responsibility. it is very difficult. we are not to make everybody happy. but i believe that we must work toward some bipartisan product when it comes to health care. . >> this week, "washington journal" is taking a look at the inner workings of medicare. on wednesday, for manicured minister tom scully discussed the largest part of the program. this is one hour. a? guest: it is the biggest part of medicare. medicare is of $480 billion per year program. it covers 45 million seniors and disabled americans, people over 65, and those under 65 who are disabled. part a co...

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