And the last question is that climate change portends out-year costs for the Federal Government that ought to be budgeted, does it not?

I think we were talking more about this graph, which I think is yours, that shows the adjusted forecast Federal spending.

I hope that we can look forward to a day when we can have a sober and sensible discussion about that here in Congress.

So your testimony here is that you are not assuming any growth from tax revenues as a result of increased economic activity in reaching the deficit neutrality.

Because you do recognize that if you count the growth here in the budget and then you count it again in your tax proposal, that is a double count.

We are concerned about the debt having gone from $10 trillion to $20 trillion.

I think we are turning the Senate into something very unfortunate if zero amendments are going to be allowed.

I look forward to working with you on that.

no amendment opportunities yet.

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