Pete Domenici: “To me, it does not [seem like a good tax].”

I think that the last point that Dr. Rivlin made you can find in the report: that our plan is more progressive than the tax code we are replacing.

I want to remind the committee again, and I will say it to you, Senator Snowe, remember, our package was put together by Democrats and Republicans, so we do not come here starting with one side or the other.

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

That is clearly a part of it, no question.