Pete Domenici: “I wish for you the best and hope the Good Lord intends for you to get well so you can come back and accomplish some more…”

“I wish for you the best and hope the Good Lord intends for you to get well so you can come back and accomplish some more things and so you and I can have some more arguments and so you and I can have red faces when you argue and I argue and my wife calls up and says: You both are arguing so much that your faces are so red nobody will listen to you. That happened once, and I did communicate to Senator Kennedy that my wife had told me I was getting too red in the face because I was yelling. I asked her: What about Senator Kennedy? And she said: Well, that is not your business, but he is yelling too much too. So I told him that, and he had a big laugh. I wish to say to him that this great big bill we are working on-- parity for the mentally ill by the insurance companies of America; about a 6-year project of his and mine--the House sent us back the bill today, Senator Kennedy, believe it or not.”