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On the recordJanuary 17, 1995
If the Senator will yield, I really believe that--and the good Senator from Michigan keeps referencing the 87,000 jurisdictions--they would be arguing what I am trying to say. Maybe I am not very eloquent in saying it. It is not in any stretch of the imagination to say that CBO is to come up with some number, no matter how fictitious it is. I am saying there is a process that says they are to do their best effort in coming up with that estimate. That is the report they will receive. But it does not stop there.
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Dirk Kempthorne
Idaho
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the process of estimating numbers by the Congressional Budget Office.

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