Pete Domenici: “I have been regularly very disturbed when I ask questions about how come we did not know what was going on.”

If indeed you intend to have a bipartisan solution, then obviously you have to do some of the things we are talking about, some give-and-take.

Well, I would just say that, sometimes when we are working on trying to solve this fiscal problem, the recognition that a long-term fix is what is needed puts many people in the position that they do not know how you do that and do it now.

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

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