Pete Domenici: “It is eight items. We will give them all to the Senator from Arizona. We have given them to him already.”

To me, it does not [seem like a good tax].

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.

I do not think I have said verbally that I favor the extension.

Unless you fix Medicare, you cannot fix this deficit.