Pete Domenici: “Over the last year the Department has dramatically cut its budget request for investment in science and technology…”

I want to say to all of you that what we have produced by way of a budget, a plan, should really be taken seriously by all of you.

I do not think I have said verbally that I favor the extension.

I think it is very important, for some of you who have gone through lame duck, to make sure that you know it is not the best choice of an arena to which you would assign the solution of major problems.

It has fallen to me since I left the Senate, for almost half of the time that I have been gone, that I have devoted time and energy to trying to come up with ways and means to help this great Nation get out of the terrible dilemma that we…