Pat Roberts: “I do not like user fees, but under the circumstances, there is not any real alternative.”

I think if a rabbit crossed the Senate floor that the distinguished leader of the Minority would probably either file cloture on the rabbit or shoot it, and so that is a real problem.

Your point is extremely valid. Other countries have beat us to the punch, and we have got to get busy.

I do not want to get picked off by all of a sudden saying 'no' to the critical access or moving to some other thing without really knowing where we are going.

We have to drive quite a few miles to get to that hospital, like you have in Alamosa.