"CBO also provides cost estimates for legislation being considered by Congress, which are extremely important in detailing a bill's potential impact."
"CBO has never claimed, nor has it ever been expected, to perfectly predict the future."
"CBO tells Congress what we need to know regardless of whether or not it is what we want to hear."
"In another day, we are going to start a process, Mr. Woodall is part of it, Chairman Womack and I are part of it, a bicameral bipartisan effort to analyze the budgeting and appropriations process and ..."
"I do not think any outside analysis of the ACA anticipated that so few companies would actually make that decision."
"When CBO scored the ACA, we were talking about something that it affects somewhere around 16 to 18 percent of the economy."
"I totally agree with you on this."
"I do think it is important to point out that it would have made more sense to hold this hearing before voting on the majority's bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act and gut Medicaid."
"There is absolutely no way we can responsibly legislate on behalf of the American people without knowing the entire impact of our healthcare proposals."
"During the debate on the Affordable Care Act, long ago as that was, I called healthcare policy a giant Rubik's Cube."
"Now it is still unclear to me if that was the goal of my Republican colleagues or an unintended consequence, but either way, it is critical information for us to have."
"My Democratic colleagues and I have grave concerns about many of his policies including massive cuts to healthcare, antipoverty programs, and investments in economic growth."