Pete Domenici: “I think you all know, at least you, Madam Chairman, and a couple of other Senators there know me and have known me for a…”

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

It would relate in some way to the process that you and I have learned and call reconciliation.

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.

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.