Pete Domenici: “I'm sorry about 9/11, when 3,000 Americans were killed by terrorists.”

I do not think I have said verbally that I favor the extension.

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

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.

I am sure people are scratching their heads, as I am, wondering, why is the President not sitting down with top congressional leaders and saying, how do we avoid this, as opposed to, I am sad to say, the President does not seem very…