U.S. President Barack Obama listens as A. Barry Rand, CEO of AARP, makes a statement regarding an agreement to lower drug costs for seniors in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on June 22, 2009. With them are Sen. Max Baucus, D-MT, (RC) and Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-CT, (R). Behind them is a portrait of President George Washington. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)