Pete Domenici: “Senator Specter, would you yield for 1 minute? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Democratic leader has the floor.”

It has fallen to me since I left the Senate, for almost half of the time that I have been gone, that I have devoted time and energy to trying to come up with ways and means to help this great Nation get out of the terrible dilemma that we…

I want to say to you first, as a former Republican Senator, remember that we put our plan together starting with bipartisan membership.

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.