Pete Domenici: “I also thank Senator Byrd and his staff and others for the significant help they gave us for preparing the coal…”

It would relate in some way to the process that you and I have learned and call reconciliation.

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

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

I think that the last point that Dr. Rivlin made you can find in the report: that our plan is more progressive than the tax code we are replacing.