Pete Domenici: “I do not choose tonight to go into an indepth analysis of the bill as it pertains to the severely mentally ill or those…”

“I do not choose tonight to go into an indepth analysis of the bill as it pertains to the severely mentally ill or those who need mental health care in America. I do want to suggest as one of the prime sponsors of amendment, which will be dropped, that I believe we should not have a commission in this bill--a commission getting bigger and bigger and broader and broader and more and more issues. Frankly, I think we would rather have an opportunity to address this issue one more time in another manner. I do not think a commission is going to solve many of the issues that we think need to be solved, at least in any of the iterations we have seen on the commission. I would ask that it not be included. I mean, I think it is no compromise for us, and we just should not have it, and let us get on with this fight in another way. So I personally will ask them not to put it in.”