Pete Domenici: “I have been telling New Mexicans and every American that I could speak to that we are going to reform the tax laws of…”

“I have been telling New Mexicans and every American that I could speak to that we are going to reform the tax laws of America. And guess what has happened. They now consist of 17,000 pages of laws. That is not the regulations and all the other things--17,000. And every year that passed, since that 5 or 6 years ago when we started talking about basic reform, the tax laws got more complicated, more difficult, cost more money, and more detrimental to the American economy with the passage of each year. Frankly, I am on this bill and I decided to put it in the budget resolution because it seemed to me that we were muscle bound. We could not get anything done. I believe the right thing to do when you are in that condition, and the people are suffering from it, and the country is suffering from it, is that you say there is going to be an 'or else' to this--'you fix it or else.' That is what sunsetting is.”