Pete Domenici: “I want to say to everybody-- including the previous immediate speaker who spoke about what kind of people we are who…”

“I want to say to everybody-- including the previous immediate speaker who spoke about what kind of people we are who think we have something better than Senator Bingaman--I want to say that there is no animus between Senator Bingaman and Pete Domenici. We are friends, and it is almost difficult when people are saying: You do so many things together; how can you come up on opposite sides of this? Well, I just studied it as best I could, and I came up with what I thought was a better idea. We have to do that. That is what we are elected for. New Mexicans ought to be wondering what is cooking, but they also ought to know that he has an idea and I have a different idea built on it, and that is all there is to it. One or the other or neither will get adopted, and we will have a good exchange here on the floor to see what is really happening.”