Pete Domenici: “No question about it, I say to the Senator. As a matter of fact, you might know that the Senator from New Mexico, in…”

“No question about it, I say to the Senator. As a matter of fact, you might know that the Senator from New Mexico, in preparing the budget resolution, had that in mind. And it was so clear to me that I put the reconciliation in the budget bill because it seemed to me we already decided that--the Chair had already decided it. And unbeknownst to me, even though that is what you read, and that is what it says, and that is what I think it says, we had to go around and do what we are doing tonight, even with that interpretation because there was a parliamentary understanding that was somewhat different from that. So that is the case. I think you are right. But I think you should understand that we asked for that ruling, and we would have been involved in not getting a debate on the budget resolution. It would have been freely debatable if we had tried that.”