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Mike Levin: “And is it the intention then, for instance, if somebody offers an amendment and it has an estimate in it but nobody knew…”

On the recordJanuary 25, 1995
And is it the intention then, for instance, if somebody offers an amendment and it has an estimate in it but nobody knew that amendment was going to be offered, and then somebody wants to come and offer a second-degree amendment and then asks the CBO to score that or estimate the second-degree amendment, is it the intention of the manager that the Congress, as he put it, be inconvenienced, hold up consideration of the bill until the estimate can be obtained from CBO? Is that the intention, that we hold up consideration of the bill until an estimate can be obtained from CBO?
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the process of obtaining estimates from the Congressional Budget Office during legislative consideration.

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