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
bill consumers dramatic efficiency energy process raising savings standards taken tougher
We put tougher efficiency standards in the energy bill so we could get dramatic energy savings to the consumers faster, ... If we hadn't mandated new standards in the bill, the administrative process for raising these standards could have taken years.
believe billion budget credits debate four next numbers point proposes spending starting sure tax
This budget proposes $148.2 billion in new spending or tax credits over the next four years, ... I believe these numbers are correct, and we need to make sure that everyone understands them as the starting point for debate by this Congress.
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Jack Lew (President Bill Clinton's budget director) and I just made the deal, ... ... The budget bill has been agreed to.
billion budget cannot cut savings
I think the across-the-board budget cut is if we cannot find about $4 billion in savings any other way, then we'll look to that,
billion dollars less rather seems six
I don't know how much it should be but it should be more rather than less is my point. Six billion dollars probably seems like to me to be the least amount.
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I am very pleased that the House has passed an identical version of this bill, which enables it to get to President Bush for his signature right away, ... The bill strikes the right balances between protecting the natural resources of the wilderness and protecting state water rights.
country cost bills
I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region.
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I've never heard of it for America and I don't have any idea about its relevance. Seems to me we don't have the refining capacity for that to occur, ... But I'm willing to look at it.
affect budget hold
These 'sense of the Senate' resolutions should not really hold up the budget because they don't really affect the budget,
abundance alaska finally share state states time today united waiting
The state of Alaska has been waiting a long time to let the United States of America, which they're part of, share in their abundance of oil, and today we finally have said that it's time.
concern nuclear power weapons
Our concern is the development of weapons from nuclear power and proliferation,
either embarrass precisely spend
either to embarrass us or make us spend precisely what he wants, which is way too much.
believe bigger government less money pockets washington
bigger government in Washington (and) less money in the pockets of the taxpayers. I believe we're right on this one.
indicate preference
didn't indicate a preference one way or the other.