Pete Domenici: “I hope the two of you, as a chairman and ranking member, see fit to introduce a bill that carries out the purposes, and…”

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.

We are now talking about something different. We are talking about the ratio of debt-to-GDP.

If it is adopted, or something close to it, you will have fixed, in our opinion, a major problem with Medicare.

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.