FEAL: This is hard to swallow.

TP: What about going office to office? Have their staff and the senators been very receptive to the group?

FEAL: 90 percent of the time. Once in a while we'll run into some resistance and some arrogance and some rude people. Listen, we busted our asses since 9/11. We've fought and advocated for ourselves [while] others wouldn't. So to be insulted by the staff of the United States Senate and Congress - most of them were 12 years old when 9/11 happened - doesn't bother me.

TP: Last question I have is it was revealed today or yesterday that Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said that he was going to place a hold on this bill and not let it come up for a vote at all. If you could send a message to Mr. Coburn, what would that be?

FEAL: Mr. Coburn should be ashamed of himself. Because I think before he was a senator he was a doctor and he took an oath to help people that are sick. He's going against his oath as a doctor. He can vote any way he wants as a senator, but as a doctor, he just embarrassed the medical profession.