Pete Domenici: “I'm still skeptical that you will find sufficient support for this program.”

I think that the last point that Dr. Rivlin made you can find in the report: that our plan is more progressive than the tax code we are replacing.

I think you raise a good point. We have to be careful about the issue you raised. It is a serious one.

We are fortunate, and we want to make sure you know that what you get, the work product you get, is bipartisan.

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