Pete Domenici: “Senator, I can only do that in dollars. The original bill cost $31-plus billion; this one costs negative $1.2 billion.”

We may not know all the answers that you seek of us because we did not have a lot of time to study in detail the more intricate health care issues.

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 is clearly a part of it, no question.

We are fortunate, and we want to make sure you know that what you get, the work product you get, is bipartisan.