Pete Domenici: “Would the Senator yield in a different way, so I could speak for 5 minutes and return the floor to you and you lose none…”

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

If it is adopted, or something close to it, you will have fixed, in our opinion, a major problem with Medicare.

But that is compared to current policy--current policy. If we would compare your plan to current law, it is actually a tax cut.

It has fallen to me since I left the Senate, for almost half of the time that I have been gone, that I have devoted time and energy to trying to come up with ways and means to help this great Nation get out of the terrible dilemma that we…