Pete Domenici: “I have learned that on many of them there is no reality attached to the number.”

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.

If indeed you intend to have a bipartisan solution, then obviously you have to do some of the things we are talking about, some give-and-take.

You cannot imagine being on my side of the aisle now, where I cannot do what you do.

I am sure people are scratching their heads, as I am, wondering, why is the President not sitting down with top congressional leaders and saying, how do we avoid this, as opposed to, I am sad to say, the President does not seem very…