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 providersr MoneyToday reported Tuesday, citing unnamed company officials. The mobile operator unveiled its software platform business in October, seeking to exploit the new profit driver in the mobile telephony business amid the rapidly growing popularity of smartphones in South Korea, one of the world's most saturated and fiercely competitive telecom markets. Last year, SK Telecom said it planned to spend KRW1 trillion ($927 million) over three years to das been inundated by heavy flooding. The National Guard contingents were to provide unarmed security checkpoints. Officials warned ongoing flooding could ultimately be the worst in decades for the state, with an unusually heavy snowpack in the mountains, persistent spring rains and waterlogged ground incapable of soaking up any more moisture. "No part of the state" will escape some type of flooding, Monique Lay, spokeswoman for the state Emergency Coordination Center, said in anticipation of more rain and melting snowpack. "It's statewide, corner to corner." Downstream, about 1,500 North Dakota National Guard soldiers were summoned to help in the flood effort as residents in Bismarck, N.D., and nearby Mandan brace for large volumes of water to be released in the coming weeks at Garrison Dam. But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' said construction of more than seven miles of earthen levees to protect against flooding in Bismarck and Mandan should be completed long before planned maximum releases at Garrison. The river is burgeoning with the runoff of rain and melting snow in Montana, Wyoming and western North Dakota. South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard said Sunday that the Corps' decision to release even more water from Missouri dams will not only cause additional problems for the central South Dakota communities of Pierre and Fort Pierre, but also for the downstream cities of Yankton and Dakota Dunes in the state's southeastern corner. Hundreds of homeowners in Pierre and Fort Pierre also have been working feverishly for several days, moving their belongings to higher ground and laying sandbags around the houses. Water had already moved into some residential areas. Meanwhile, officials in Nebraska and Iowa have been monitoring the river, which is expected to crest near Omaha at record levels between 30 and 35 feet in late June after more water is released from reservoirs. In perhaps a sign of weariness in Montana, the state Emergency Coordination Center on Sunday felt compelled to issue a statement saying Fort Peck Dam is not in danger of