John Yarmuth actually said...

I think it is been very helpful today and kind of puts a finishing touch, to a certain extent, on a very productive series of hearings.

The problem of long term forecasting and long term budgeting... we have gotten around it by certain gimmicks.

What we have in our broken budget process is not a structural or procedural issue as so much as a human issue.

CBO has never claimed, nor has it ever been expected, to perfectly predict the future.