Pete Domenici: “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 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.

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

It is clear from this example that good things can happen when we open up more areas for drilling in a responsible manner.

We just have to say, that is not what is going to happen.