Pete Domenici: “Let me ask, Senator Clinton, are you on some kind of time-sensitive schedule? If you are, I will let you go. How long…”

It would relate in some way to the process that you and I have learned and call reconciliation.

I think that the last point that Dr. Rivlin made you can find in the report: that our plan is more progressive than the tax code we are replacing.

We may not know all the answers that you seek of us because we did not have a lot of time to study in detail the more intricate health care issues.

I want to remind the committee again, and I will say it to you, Senator Snowe, remember, our package was put together by Democrats and Republicans, so we do not come here starting with one side or the other.