Pete Domenici: “I want to tell the Senate, and anybody interested, if not for Charles Grassley, the Senator who has been speaking, we…”

“I want to tell the Senate, and anybody interested, if not for Charles Grassley, the Senator who has been speaking, we would not have gotten that provision. That is a fair provision because those parts of America--your State, my State, and others--that have done a good job of keeping costs way down, can't make it if we build the program on keeping them down while the very expensive States do not come down. And this is a formula we did not get exactly what we wanted, but thanks to your efforts we came very close to something that you can say is fair and much better for your people.”