Pete Domenici: “Senator Inhofe will desire to speak. Let's put it all together, and then we can finish.”

I just celebrated my 80th, you know.

If indeed you intend to have a bipartisan solution, then obviously you have to do some of the things we are talking about, some give-and-take.

I think it is very important, for some of you who have gone through lame duck, to make sure that you know it is not the best choice of an arena to which you would assign the solution of major problems.

I want each one of you to know I am trying to look you right in the eyes and tell you that, in the U.S. Senate, you happen to be the super committee.