Pete Domenici: “This administration has a done a terrific job of building down the nuclear stockpile.”

That did not reduce any beneficiaries' benefits, it just cut the amounts that providers were otherwise getting.

I want to remind the committee again, and I will say it to you, Senator Snowe, remember, our package was put together by Democrats and Republicans, so we do not come here starting with one side or the other.

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

I think you raise a good point. We have to be careful about the issue you raised. It is a serious one.