Pete Domenici: “This is a budget for prosperity now and prosperity in the future, plain and simple. It is the largest commitment of…”

“This is a budget for prosperity now and prosperity in the future, plain and simple. It is the largest commitment of money for education in our Nation's history. It keeps our word. Social Security and Medicare are not touched. Their funds are not used. My mother is not alive. But if she were to call me, I would say: Your Social Security is intact and fully protected. Medicare is fully protected. But also, mother, there is $300 billion in this budget for prescription drugs and reform of the Medicare program--$300 billion. The House wanted only $146 billion. There is $300 billion to get started on the program.”