Pete Domenici: “It would have been a shame if you would have lost this opportunity, with your talent and your ability to convince…”

I believe that that has to happen. I guess the rest is, I hope it happens, and the sooner the better, in my mind.

Well, I would just say that, sometimes when we are working on trying to solve this fiscal problem, the recognition that a long-term fix is what is needed puts many people in the position that they do not know how you do that and do it now.

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

We may not know all the answers that you seek of us because we did not have a lot of time to study in detail the more intricate health care issues.