Pete Domenici: “We can't do it all at once. I am so pleased we picked the right one. And with the help of that man sitting in the chair…”

“We can't do it all at once. I am so pleased we picked the right one. And with the help of that man sitting in the chair, the Presiding Officer today--we call him ``President'' today, but he is actually a Senator--with his help, because he had a little guts, he decided to talk to his people instead of echoing. He went out there and talked and said: Let's do something. They agreed to this, after years of dilly-dallying, right? We are doing something for the country. The Presiding Officer, Mel Martinez, the junior Senator, is part of this three or four or five people who led this actual attack on this moratorium. Moratorium has something to do with death. That is what the moratorium was, death for us, this crazy idea that these resources should be locked up when you could drill for them and not hurt anybody. It is finally going out the window, little by little, with this bill. Two windows going out. We will see how it works. The public is going to say: Boy, it works. And then some more windows will go out later. And that is what you are talking about. Thank you so much.”