Pete Domenici: “I want to make sure we start with everybody understanding what the Republican budget proposal is. I am pleased to have…”

“I want to make sure we start with everybody understanding what the Republican budget proposal is. I am pleased to have the other side say they would do it differently. But I want to make sure everybody in the country understands that based upon the regular budget concepts that we have been using now for a long time with reference to what is within a budget, what is not within a budget: This is the budget. It is very simple. I don't want to say it is right because I have just asked that perhaps the other side not be so dogmatic and say right and wrong. But I would say it is what the President asks us to do, with a few changes. Frankly, it is a very good budget, if you want to give the American people, the average family, a substantial portion of this surplus; if you want to give that back to them so they can spend it for themselves as they see fit, perhaps sitting around a table saying we are going to get $1,600 back, we are going to get $1,200 back, which is the average in my State; $1,600 is the average in Texas.”