Pete Domenici: “If indeed you intend to have a bipartisan solution, then obviously you have to do some of the things we are talking…”

I want to remind the committee again, and I will say it to you, Senator Snowe, remember, our package was put together by Democrats and Republicans, so we do not come here starting with one side or the other.

That is clearly a part of it, no question.

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

We may not know all the answers that you seek of us because we did not have a lot of time to study in detail the more intricate health care issues.