Pete Domenici: “the deficit is still too big unless you decide to fill that gap with something.”

If indeed you intend to have a bipartisan solution, then obviously you have to do some of the things we are talking about, some give-and-take.

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

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

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.