Pete Domenici: “I read the amendment. Let me see if I am correct. You don't do anything to the rest of the budget and the proposed tax…”

Unless you fix Medicare, you cannot fix this deficit.

I want each one of you to know I am trying to look you right in the eyes and tell you that, in the U.S. Senate, you happen to be the super committee.

That is clearly a part of it, no question.

It cries out for flexibility to save money, to do things right, to prevent harming people when they do not have to be.