Pete Domenici: “I think we need to help them subdue the insurgency and take charge of their own country, and then we can go about our…”

It would relate in some way to the process that you and I have learned and call reconciliation.

Without the President we do not get it done ought to be the hue and cry from the Congress and the people of this country.

I think it is very important, for some of you who have gone through lame duck, to make sure that you know it is not the best choice of an arena to which you would assign the solution of major problems.

Well, I would just say that, sometimes when we are working on trying to solve this fiscal problem, the recognition that a long-term fix is what is needed puts many people in the position that they do not know how you do that and do it now.