t from Democrats, who charge it would "end Medicare as we know it." The Senate rejected it in a vote last week, but also unanimously struck down an alternative plan proposed by President Obama.  Democrats said they wanted to leave it off the table while Vice President Biden leads a bipartisan group of senators to come up with a new budget that would include cuts in spending that would satisfy lawmakers who don't want to increase the nation's borrowing limit without reducing government's size. "The one thing we can't do is nothing," McConnell said. "The president, to his credit, is at the table. ... We're going to negotiate the contours of the plan in these negotiations. I'm personally very comfortable with the way Paul Ryan would structure it in the out years, but we have a Democratic president. We're going to have to negotiate with him on the terms of changing Medicare so we can save Medicare." Appearing on the same program, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on Republicans to abandon the House Medicare plan, noting an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that says it would require seniors to shoulder an increasingly large share of their health care costs. Schumer said there are only three options -- doing nothing, the Ryan plan or a Democratic vision that preserves benefits and changes "delivery systems," but does "not let providerse face of certain death, Petty Officer Monsoor gallantly gave his life for country, thereby reflecting great credit upon himself and upholding the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service." Today, Mansoor has a Navy destroyer named in his honor.   Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller, U.S. Army The valleys of eastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province have seen some of the most fearsome fighting of the war. The remote villages, a sometimes hostile local population and proximity to the Taliban and Al Qaeda hideouts in Pakistan have made Kunar hard country to tame. All four of the Medals of Honor awarded for Afghan service have been for heroics in Kunar. One of those recipients was Staff Sgt. Robert Miller, who was killed on Jan. 25, 2008, while leading a 24-man team as part of a mission to drive insurgents from one of those deadly valleys. Miller's patrol came upon an insurgent compound and he decided to engage the enemy, calling in airstrikes and opening fire before the enemy could escape. They had kicked over a hornet's nest. Some 150 fighters emerged to surround Miller's crew, pouring fire on the Americans who suddenly found themselves pinned down, outgunned and outnumbered. Miller, a 24-year-old Green Beret from Wheaton, Ill., rallied his squad but decided to fall back until air support could arrive. It is what he did next that earned Miller his place in history. As President Obama said in presenting Miller's Medal of Honor to his family: "Rob moved in the other direction -- toward the enemy, drawing their guns away from his team and bringing the fire of all those insurgents down upon himself. "The fighting was ferocious. Rob seemed to disappear into clouds of dust and debris, but his team could hear him on the radio, still calling out the enemy's position. And they could hear his weapon still firing as he provided cover for his men. And then, over the radio, they heard his voice. He had been hit. But still, he kept calling out enemy positions. Still, he kept firing. Still, he kept throwing his grenades. And then they heard it -- Rob's weapon fell silent." His comrades would, with the help of reinforcements, later fight their way back to the compound to recover his body.   Senior Airman Jason D. Cunningham, USAF The Air Force Cross has been awarded only 192 times since it was established in 1964. It has been awarded only twice in the current conflicts -- both posthumously for actions in Afghanistan. Senior Airman Jason Cunningham was serving as a pararescueman near the village of Marzak, Afghanistan in March of 2002. On a mission to recover two American servicemen evading capture in an area heavily occupied by Al Qaeda and the Taliban, his helicopter was struck by an RPG and crash-landed in the midst of small arms fire. Despite great risk to his life, Cunningham remained in the burning fuselage to treat the wounded, and then successfully helped move them through extreme danger to not one, not two, but three casualty collection points under fire. By the time he reached the third point, his life was drawing to an end, but his spirit refused to quit. "Even after he was mortally wounded and quickly deteriorating, he continued to direct patient movement and transferred care to another medic. In the end, his distinct efforts led to the successful delivery of 10 gravely wounded Americans to lifesaving medical treatment," the record reflects. Cpl. Jonathan Yale and Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter, USMC Marine Lt. Gen. John Kelly delivered a speech to the Semper Fi Society -- a group for former active duty Marines -- in St. Louis on Nov. 13, 2010, just four days after his son, Lt. Robert Kelly, USMC, was killed by an IED in Afghanistan. Kelly delivered his speech despite his grief and never spoke of the loss of his son, but the general chose to close with the story of Jon Yale and Jordan Haerter, two young Marines who had been under his command in Ramadi, Iraq. In the span of six seconds on April 22, 2008, Yale and Haerter acted to stop a dump truck loaded with 1,000 pounds of explosives and driven by a suicide bomber from entering the Marine compound. If the suicide bomber had made it through the gates, hundreds of Marines would have surely been killed. But he didn't, because these men did their duty. In making his recommendations for the Navy Cross for the two Marines, Kelly had been able to review the recordings from security cameras made just before the blast destroyed them. Here's how Kelly described it: "You can watch the last six seconds of their young lives. Putting myself in their heads, I su