But I say to the Senator, with the process as prescribed, you will have that report from CBO. You then, as the Chair of that committee, can use that and come down to this floor, and you can get a majority to vote to waive that. Because you now have a report from CBO saying, ``We do not know what it is going to cost. We do not know how to estimate this.''
Discussing the role of the Congressional Budget Office in the legislative process.
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