Pete Domenici
Pete Domenici
Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domeniciis an American Republican politician, who served six terms as a United States Senator from New Mexico, from 1973 to 2009, the longest tenure in the state's history. During Domenici's tenure in the Senate, he advocated waterway usage fees, nuclear power, and related causes...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 May 1932
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I am close to the position right now that if there are not across-the-board cuts I will not support the bill,
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I am very discouraged when you add six new entitlement programs and at the same time, you are trying to say we are getting a budget under control,
If we had put (Arctic drilling) in the bill, we wouldn't be here.
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If we can find the offsets we'll go down to zero across-the- board,
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If they have good jobs, we have to give them some kind of multi-year work permit that validates their presence here,
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Police officers need up-to-date equipment and better technology to stay safe on the job while fighting crime,
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No one should kid themselves. This is not a budget that is going to have a significant impact on the fiscal policy of this country.
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My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.
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My constituents, and actually most Americans, think that somebody rigs these prices. That in the process, somebody's getting ripped off, and they think it's them.
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Nuclear power alone is not the solution to our energy woes, but can become a stronger component of an overall national energy policy, just as we must promote greater domestic oil and gas production, and yes, embrace greater conservation and renewable fuels. But we should be realistic in understanding that conservation and renewable fuels, which now only provide about 2 percent of our energy needs, will never get us to energy independence.
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Now you know as well as I know that many of them are not going to do anything, but if a senator wants to offer them as a sense, not as legislation, they may do that,
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When you do the final assumptions, we will not have used Social Security trust fund money this year either. That'll be two years in a row,
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We ought to accept it as a major effort on the part of the president and say to the American people that we are willing to work from it,
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we don't need to have somebody explain to us how the people of New Mexico think.