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Kent Conrad: The simple fact is the numbers he has displayed here are not the official forecast for what this bill will raise. They…

On the recordMay 21, 1998
The simple fact is the numbers he has displayed here are not the official forecast for what this bill will raise. They just are not. They are dramatically higher than the official forecast before this body by the Joint Tax Committee, which is the forecasting service we all use. And so the numbers that he has presented to our colleagues, to anybody else who is listening, are numbers that are not the official forecast of what this bill is going to raise.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Addressing discrepancies in revenue forecasts related to a specific bill.

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