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

If indeed you intend to have a bipartisan solution, then obviously you have to do some of the things we are talking about, some give-and-take.

I want to say to all of you that what we have produced by way of a budget, a plan, should really be taken seriously by all of you.

I am not sure it is happening. We have to wait a little bit longer.

That is clearly a part of it, no question.