Pete Domenici: “Everybody should recall that the Republican budget says unless and until the Congress of the United States produces…”

“Everybody should recall that the Republican budget says unless and until the Congress of the United States produces legislation with 60 votes that does otherwise, we allocate whatever Federal moneys we receive from any cigarette settlement to the Medicare fund, which is the fund most entitled to it because it's the fund that is most abused by smoking--$25 billion a year. So what we have now is an attempt to say, no, let's change it just a little bit, let's add another use to that fund. I don't believe we should do that. I make a point of order that this amendment violates the Budget Act because it is not germane.”