Pete Domenici: “It is eight items. We will give them all to the Senator from Arizona. We have given them to him already.”

To me, it does not [seem like a good tax].

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

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.

I am sure people are scratching their heads, as I am, wondering, why is the President not sitting down with top congressional leaders and saying, how do we avoid this, as opposed to, I am sad to say, the President does not seem very…