Bob Dole: “I want to take just a moment to talk about the CBO report today from the Congressional Budget Office. I know my…”

“I want to take just a moment to talk about the CBO report today from the Congressional Budget Office. I know my colleague from New Mexico has analyzed it very carefully. I congratulate the CBO Director, Mr. Reischauer, because I think they did put together a very objective and an comprehensive analysis under very difficult circumstances. Make no mistake about it. The Congressional Budget Office report today confirms what many of us have been saying all over the country for the past several months and a lot of people have suspected, Democrats and Republicans: The Clinton health care plan calls for multi-billion-dollar doses of deficit spending and Government control. And that is a fact, at least a fact according to CBO. I think what the CBO report really does is say you have to start down this road very carefully. You cannot just say, ``Oh, these are the numbers. We have had it checked by all the outside experts. This is it.'' I am not certain whether these numbers are accurate, even. Neither is the Senator from New Mexico. And I doubt if Mr. Reischauer would take a pledge that these numbers are totally accurate. The one thing we have to insist on in the health care debate, as we start voting on health care, is that we get it right, because around this place in a major piece of legislation, if you do not get it right, it may take 20 years to correct it.”