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Jim Saxton: “If I may just ask the gentleman's explanation of deficit in the Clinton budget. The gentleman mentioned the scoring that…”

On the recordMarch 11, 1997
If I may just ask the gentleman's explanation of deficit in the Clinton budget. The gentleman mentioned the scoring that takes place by two different agencies, the CBO and OMB. In spite of the fact that they do different scoring, they both agree, do they not, that the deficit goes up initially and then falls ever so slightly during the 1998-99 time frame, and then during the last 2 years of the 5-year plan, the President's 5-year plan, the deficit reduction that takes place is about 70 percent of the total deficit reduction that takes place during the whole plan. So we are essentially, under this proposal, pushing most of the deficit reduction off until after the year 2000, when we then promise the American people we will get to it. Is that fair to say under both sets of scoring?
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Discussing the deficit in the Clinton budget during a congressional debate.

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