Pete Domenici: “I believe I have 15 minutes at this point. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator is recognized. There is no time limit.”

If it is adopted, or something close to it, you will have fixed, in our opinion, a major problem with Medicare.

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

I think it is very important, for some of you who have gone through lame duck, to make sure that you know it is not the best choice of an arena to which you would assign the solution of major problems.

To me, it does not [seem like a good tax].