Pete Domenici: “It is just amazing to this Senator. I don't know where they get the numbers. Somebody is giving them to them. Somebody…”

“It is just amazing to this Senator. I don't know where they get the numbers. Somebody is giving them to them. Somebody is making a lot of assumptions that are not in this budget resolution. We do not need a lesson from anyone about whether or not we should dip into Social Security trust funds for purposes of spending in this budget. We were the first to put before the Congress of the United States a lockbox concept. By the time we were finished, everybody took credit for it--lock in the Social Security trust fund. That is a lockbox. Before we were finished, President Clinton was for it. He had not been for it before. We start it; everybody takes credit. Let me say to the American people, whenever you want to give the American people a tax cut of sizable proportions--not as big as the Kennedy tax cut, not as big as the Reagan tax cut--just try to give the taxpayers some of their money back out of this huge surplus, there is no end to excuses as to why we cannot do it.”