Pete Domenici: “It cries out for reform, even if we did not have a fiscal crisis. It cries out for reform. It is a mess.”

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

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.

He has been fair in almost everything he's done.

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.