Pete Domenici: “I'm very glad that the person that's held this up, without cluttering up the record, is gone.”

I want each one of you to know I am trying to look you right in the eyes and tell you that, in the U.S. Senate, you happen to be the super committee.

That is clearly a part of it, no question.

The two of us have done this budgeting differently because we have done it bipartisanly from the very beginning.

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