Pete Domenici: “I think you raise a good point. We have to be careful about the issue you raised. It is a serious one.”

It is clear from this example that good things can happen when we open up more areas for drilling in a responsible manner.

I want to say to all of you that what we have produced by way of a budget, a plan, should really be taken seriously by all of you.

I want to say to you first, as a former Republican Senator, remember that we put our plan together starting with bipartisan membership.

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.