Pete Domenici: “I assure the Senator that I will resist any attempt to open the conference to discussion of waste issues. I would also…”

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

To redress the balance between the Government acting in its discretionary capacity and the individual

That is clearly a part of it, no question.

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.