Pete Domenici: “I found lacking the Secretary of Defense's ideas and yet, this is a defense program as much as it is not.”

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…

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

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

I want to say to all of you that what we have produced by way of a budget, a plan, should really be taken seriously by all of you.