Pete Domenici: “Unless you fix Medicare, you cannot fix this deficit.”

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

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

I want to remind the committee again, and I will say it to you, Senator Snowe, remember, our package was put together by Democrats and Republicans, so we do not come here starting with one side or the other.

To redress the balance between the Government acting in its discretionary capacity and the individual