Pete Domenici: “Many of the items that you have deleted are programs that have been funded year in and year out.”

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

It is not a typical bill. It is very difficult to understand.

You cannot imagine being on my side of the aisle now, where I cannot do what you do.

That did not reduce any beneficiaries' benefits, it just cut the amounts that providers were otherwise getting.