Pete Domenici: “Your tax plan will cause far better growth than the plan we are under now.”

Unless you fix Medicare, you cannot fix this deficit.

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.

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

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.