Pete Domenici: “There are 100 amendments. You want to go in the middle of the 100? Do you want to go first?”

I just celebrated my 80th, you know.

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.

It is clear from this example that good things can happen when we open up more areas for drilling in a responsible manner.

It seems to me that sooner or later something has to be done. The economy is suffering from an awful lot of people not knowing what is going to happen.