Rob Andrews said "The committee staffs who were involved in writing the bill are Federal employees subject to the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act. There have been many distortions about this law; this is just one of them. I want to point out that one of the earlier speakers said that there's a GAO study that says this increases the deficit by some imaginary number. The scorekeeper around here for deficits is the Congressional Budget Office. They say it reduces the deficit by $100 billion." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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The committee staffs who were involved in writing the bill are Federal employees subject to the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act. There have been many distortions about this law; this is just one of them. I want to point out that one of the earlier speakers said that there's a GAO study that says this increases the deficit by some imaginary number. The scorekeeper around here for deficits is the Congressional Budget Office. They say it reduces the deficit by $100 billion.

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