Pete Domenici: “I think you ought to--in response to your question, I would suggest that the committee take a good look at the reality…”

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…

I want to say to you first, as a former Republican Senator, remember that we put our plan together starting with bipartisan membership.

I want each one of you to know I am trying to look you right in the eyes and tell you that, in the U.S. Senate, you happen to be the super committee.

That did not reduce any beneficiaries' benefits, it just cut the amounts that providers were otherwise getting.