Pete Domenici: “But I tell you they're making some bad mistakes of judgment in their recommendations and this is one of them.”

If it is adopted, or something close to it, you will have fixed, in our opinion, a major problem with Medicare.

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

It would relate in some way to the process that you and I have learned and call reconciliation.

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.