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Jeff Flake: “That is not the information that I had. And the point that I made with regard to the scoring by CBO stands. If you use…”

On the recordMay 22, 2008
That is not the information that I had. And the point that I made with regard to the scoring by CBO stands. If you use an earlier baseline, it affects it tremendously. If you use the baseline that we should be using under the budget rules adopted by this House, by this majority, then the program would not score as it did; it would score as a big hit to the taxpayer rather than something else.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Discussing budget scoring and its implications for taxpayers.

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