Bob Kerrey: “Counsel has assured me that it will be here within 15 or 20 minutes now. They told me 15 or 20 minutes ago that it would…”

“Counsel has assured me that it will be here within 15 or 20 minutes now. They told me 15 or 20 minutes ago that it would be within a half an hour. I emphasize that our initial understanding was that the rescission bill would come up later. We have had to accelerate the detailed writing of the amendment, and I alert those who wonder about this kind of a process that when you are not on the Budget Committee you are not in a position to be able to command the staff to do this sort of thing. It is very often more difficult to get that job done. I say to my friend, he has raised another point having to do with CBO. We have very explicitly not lowered the caps because there was disagreement about whether we ought to do that. As a consequence of not lowering the caps, we are in the position of not, under any circumstances, being able to get a score from CBO on this. Regardless of what is on the amendment, as a result of not lowering those caps, we are not in a position to have a score from CBO.”