Pete Domenici: “I was just going to tell Senator Stevens he does not have to take me up there. Whatever you want, you can have.”

I think you raise a good point. We have to be careful about the issue you raised. It is a serious one.

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…

It has fallen to me since I left the Senate, for almost half of the time that I have been gone, that I have devoted time and energy to trying to come up with ways and means to help this great Nation get out of the terrible dilemma that we…

That is clearly a part of it, no question.