Pete Domenici: “I withdraw the request and yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon has the floor.”

That did not reduce any beneficiaries' benefits, it just cut the amounts that providers were otherwise getting.

the lower the tax, the better in terms of the economy and its capability to produce and grow.

It seems to me that sooner or later something has to be done. The economy is suffering from an awful lot of people not knowing what is going to happen.

It cries out for flexibility to save money, to do things right, to prevent harming people when they do not have to be.