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Pete V. Domenici is a former United States Senator from New Mexico, serving from 1973 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he was known for his work on budgetary issues and energy policy. During his tenure, he played a significant role in shaping legislation related to nuclear energy and national defense. Domenici was also involved in various bipartisan efforts, particularly in the areas of health care and education reform. He was a prominent advocate for fiscal responsibility and was instrumental in the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
first, I thank Senator Bingaman for recognizing my participation in the past on this issue. Obviously, believe it or not, about 26 years ago, when I was essentially the mayor of the city of Albuquerque, this problem was already there. We…
I thought maybe we were celebrating the end of a war or something. In any event, I want to put a table in the Record, because yesterday I spoke of the fact that, since 1991 to this point, there have been no cuts on the discretionary…
speaking of hyperbole, I would just like to cite some of the wonderful prose that the chairman used yesterday to see if it fits his definition of hyperbole or some kind of rhetoric. I really thought that it was wonderful. It is retreating…
I regret that I cannot vote for it. I did make a proposal. I felt so strongly about one basic principle: That we cannot continue to cut defense. We cannot make any more across-the-board discretionary cuts and take those funds from defense…
With reference to Senator Boxer's comments on the Defense Department of the United States and America's military, the United States is not Iraq; the United States is not Russia; the United States is not the Ukraine; the United States is…
so in health care reform everybody should know that this budget resolution provides an open-ended invitation in terms of how big and how expensive the health package can be so long as we pay for it with new taxes and other savings. I…
Now, also, I want to remind the Senators, with reference to defense, Senator Nunn and I have been trying to restore the firewalls between discretionary defense and nondefense, and had we had those in place, I clearly might have been more…
I note that over the past 10 or 12 days there has been a very concerted effort on the part of the White House to contact the Indian people of this country through their leaders. They had a summit at the White House. They had a listening…
First, Mr. President, fellow Senators, I want to talk just a bit about some of the remarks that the distinguished chairman made with reference to the Federal Reserve Board and their policies. I was not privileged to be in attendance at the…
the numbers will show that Defense's cuts are going to get worse than that little chart shows as we follow the President's policies and as we follow the policies of allocating more of the discretionary cuts to defense in this…
today I am introducing what I choose to call the Health Care Reform Act of 1994. This bill is my effort to provide some concrete legislative proposals in health care. After watching and observing for weeks and months on end, I have put…
First, I am pleased that the conferees accepted a modification of my amendment to exempt signatories to the North American Free-Trade Agreement from the new visa fees that are authorized in the act. The provision retains the exemption, but…