Pete Domenici: “Now we really do appreciate your coming down on the side of $3.5, which was the amount we had appropriated.”

I think that the last point that Dr. Rivlin made you can find in the report: that our plan is more progressive than the tax code we are replacing.

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.

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

It is clear from this example that good things can happen when we open up more areas for drilling in a responsible manner.