Pete Domenici: “Why have you abandoned the notion that long-term clean-up costs over the next 30 years could be effectively reduced…”

I want to say to all of you that what we have produced by way of a budget, a plan, should really be taken seriously by all of you.

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.

We just have to say, that is not what is going to happen.

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