Victor Fazio: “If the gentleman would look at the transcript of the hearing on the Joint Committee on Taxation on February 13, the…”

“If the gentleman would look at the transcript of the hearing on the Joint Committee on Taxation on February 13, the statement of the chairman of the Joint Committee, the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Bill Archer, makes no reference to dynamic scoring. There is not any reference because, I believe, dynamic scoring is something that is still a controversial issue here, and I am not sure there is any mandate to the committee to handle that task. Dynamic scoring may, in fact, be what the committee needs additional staff for, but if we look at what was cited as the justification for the increase, I could not find it. A lot of committees would like to go back to the staffing level they were at in the past. That is the very point I am trying to make. This committee is being given the opportunity to go back because suddenly it is determined that there is work for them to do. Well, there are many other committees that have additional work they would like to do, but they are not being give this kind of latitude, they are not being given this kind of assistance.”