Pete Domenici: “We are fortunate, and we want to make sure you know that what you get, the work product you get, is bipartisan.”

But that is compared to current policy--current policy. If we would compare your plan to current law, it is actually a tax cut.

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.

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

I believe that that has to happen. I guess the rest is, I hope it happens, and the sooner the better, in my mind.