Pete Domenici: “I see it as nothing but an obstacle--and we have plenty already--to getting things done.”

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.

Frankly, I think we gave you a plan that is really doable.

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…

It is clear from this example that good things can happen when we open up more areas for drilling in a responsible manner.