What we have in our broken budget process is not a structural or procedural issue as so much as a human issue.
The truth is Congress simply could not function effectively without CBO's budget estimates and analyses.
I have this knack for asking questions that I really do not expect a certain answer to.
The problem of long term forecasting and long term budgeting... we have gotten around it by certain gimmicks.
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.
We still need CBO to be that unbiased scorekeeper.
I do not think any outside analysis of the ACA anticipated that so few companies would actually make that decision.
I totally agree with you on this.
CBO, a nonpartisan agency, has provided Congress with objective and impartial information about budgetary and economic issues.
I appreciate your holding this hearing. I am pleased to join you in welcoming our witnesses for Members' Day.
CBO tells Congress what we need to know regardless of whether or not it is what we want to hear.