Pete Domenici: “Could I ask a question? We had a debate for about an hour and a half about this trigger idea. Lo and behold, we found…”

“Could I ask a question? We had a debate for about an hour and a half about this trigger idea. Lo and behold, we found the position of the Democrats is this budget does not have any trigger in it. You know, the trigger was the President's way of getting to a balanced budget when he did not have a balanced budget. So they have suggested they do not have a trigger. But I say to my very good friend, sitting over in a little category called function 920, allowances, is $68 billion in budget cuts. So that was the trigger under the President's budget which permitted him to say, ``We are not cutting anything. It is those bad Republicans who are cutting everything, including veterans.'' Now the cat is out of the bag. Your budget, the President's budget as submitted by the Democrats--which they are going to vote for, I understand, willingly--it says to get to balance we really have to cut a lot of things we have not told anybody about yet. Right?”