Pete Domenici: “everything is on the table.”

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

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.

You cannot imagine being on my side of the aisle now, where I cannot do what you do.

That did not reduce any beneficiaries' benefits, it just cut the amounts that providers were otherwise getting.