Pete Domenici: “I do not want to argue, but I am not sending an amendment to be operative. I can put in a letter. If I want somebody to…”

To me, it does not [seem like a good tax].

I see it as nothing but an obstacle--and we have plenty already--to getting things done.

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.

The two of us have done this budgeting differently because we have done it bipartisanly from the very beginning.