Pete Domenici: “I want to start over again to make sure everybody understands what I have to say. Sometimes the most simple thing is the…”

“I want to start over again to make sure everybody understands what I have to say. Sometimes the most simple thing is the most difficult to explain. This is a very simple proposition. We have put in a bill--the Energy bill--the work of two or three committees. It is not all an Energy Committee bill. The lead pony in the bill is an important provision with reference to the mileage on automobiles, and we have, for the first time in more than two decades, changed that in this bill. We have an ethanol 2, which is cellulosic, which follows on right behind ethanol to make sure ethanol is stabilized and we get a huge product in years to come to take the place of oil-based petroleum. Those were in a bill, and they were working their way through, and the decision was made: Well, we will put on that some taxes. They put on $21 billion in taxes and another item that was long passed--we will leave it alone--and all of a sudden the President of the United States said: Well, don't send me that bill. I will veto it. Now, I am one who happens to believe him.”