Pete Domenici: “Senator Don Nickles has done an outstanding job, as have the Members who serve with him, working for our country…”

“Senator Don Nickles has done an outstanding job, as have the Members who serve with him, working for our country, joining him in doing the very best possible job they can do. I think the budget before us, under the circumstances, is as good as we are going to get. I only hope not only do we pass it but at the end of the year we look back and say, with the exception of things that were outside of our control, it truly was enforced; we carried it out. I hope that is the case. When you get a budget and it is deficit time, and the debts are as big as they are, people generally are too gloomy. There are too many people running around saying how bad things are. I have been there when the deficits were bigger than they are now. I have been there when they were less. I have been there when it was balanced, believe it or not. Frankly, I think what is good to know is that the American economy, the engine of wealth day by day, is in pretty good shape.”