"Thank you very much, again, Dr. Hall. And you spent a lot of time, you and your team here before this committee over the last few months."
"I think it is a concern that that trend may continue over the next few years."
"if you had that proposal in effect right now, we would be looking at figuring out how to cut roughly $800 billion worth of Federal spending in the next year."
"A drop in Federal spending would slow down the economy; just something that large."
"The truth is Congress simply could not function effectively without CBO's budget estimates and analyses."
"We still need CBO to be that unbiased scorekeeper."
"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."
"What we have in our broken budget process is not a structural or procedural issue as so much as a human issue."
"The problem of long term forecasting and long term budgeting... we have gotten around it by certain gimmicks."
"I have this knack for asking questions that I really do not expect a certain answer to."
"I appreciate your holding this hearing. I am pleased to join you in welcoming our witnesses for Members' Day."
"CBO, a nonpartisan agency, has provided Congress with objective and impartial information about budgetary and economic issues."