Sen. Domenici, being a member of the minority party for much of his career, has a good understanding of guarding against trampling the rights of minority party members.
He kept us in a lot of games. It's really easy to do your job when he's back there.
It took him a long time to get to where he'd go along with the nuclear option. Even today, Sen. Domenici would like to see a resolution of this problem without having to resort to that.