Pete Domenici: “I have been regularly very disturbed when I ask questions about how come we did not know what was going on.”

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

To me, it does not [seem like a good tax].

I believe that that has to happen. I guess the rest is, I hope it happens, and the sooner the better, in my mind.

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…