Pete Domenici: “If you want to save the taxpayers money, then go after the place where the money is that is about to break your country…”

“If you want to save the taxpayers money, then go after the place where the money is that is about to break your country, and that is the entitlements for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. If you want to save your taxpayers from ruination, then get involved in reforming those programs so they do not make us go broke. Anybody who knows about your government will tell you, dear Senator, if that is what you want to do, Domenici is right, go after appropriations; that is where money is spent. Go after entitlements; that is where money is spent that is going to break your country. And to prove to you that this bill does not spend money, all I can do is do it the way the Senate does it and ask the Congressional Budget Office: How much do these bills cost the taxpayers? Senator Bingaman, you asked that, and I don't know whether you already said it, but I am going to repeat it. This is Senator Bingaman's letter. He asked the Congressional Budget Office. Now, we have to have institutions that take care of things, don't we? The Congressional Budget Office, not the Senator from Oklahoma, is charged with evaluating a bill and telling us about it. You know what they told us about this bill? Not only does it not cost money, it makes money. This bill will bring into the Treasury in the next 4 years $48 million, because we have authorized the disposition of a couple of boats that were under lease.”