Pete Domenici: “That will not be sufficient, then, if the Department remains at security condition 3 for all of 2004.”

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

We are fortunate, and we want to make sure you know that what you get, the work product you get, is bipartisan.

He has been fair in almost everything he's done.

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