Pete Domenici: “If it is the case, I yield to the facts. Still, the situation is that at an appointed time shortly after that event, or…”

“If it is the case, I yield to the facts. Still, the situation is that at an appointed time shortly after that event, or surrounding that event, when it was declared to be violative of the Budget Act, it is quite clear the majority leader does not want to negotiate here with Republicans and in the House with Republicans and Democrats, again. So he prefers to go right to conference. He doesn't seem to be terribly concerned about what happened to the Democratic bill because he doesn't want to work anything out in the Senate because he says that means he will have to negotiate twice. I believe we don't have to negotiate twice. We ought to look at these three points. I can see in both bodies a very large majority for these three points. That is ample for Members to go home at Christmas and say, we have a good stimulus. It can be bipartisan because there are at least 12 Senators, a mix of both sides, who support the holiday.”