Bruce F. Vento: “I have supported any number of exemptions to this bill, but I want to make it clear I have no objection to the…”

“I have supported any number of exemptions to this bill, but I want to make it clear I have no objection to the information that is being asked for in this mandated bill. I do object to the unusual procedure that would be implemented on this floor in terms of implementing the legislation. I think in this case we could say the same thing. You say that information is already available through the committee process. then if it is already available, why not incorporate it into the CBO? It is not the intention here to undermine or undercut the legislation, simply to provide the perspective on a balanced basis of having both sides of the benefits that can be achieved and are achieved which there would be little argument about. If it is not possible to quantify that, then they would not be able to do that. In fact, I suggest the gentleman's legislation under rules and regulations provisions, pages 16 through 22, has the same sort of language in it in terms of qualitative and quantitative analysis if it is possible.”