Jerry Nadler: “It is very nice to say that we should examine the inflation that has occurred and the spending that has occurred, but…”

“It is very nice to say that we should examine the inflation that has occurred and the spending that has occurred, but that is not what the amendment calls for. The amendment requires the Comptroller General to include an estimate of a rule's effect, a rule that presumably hasn't yet been issued, on inflation in the congressional review report. Now, I stated before why it is impossible to do that, why the CRS and the OMB say that there are significant methodological challenges to estimating and aggregating the total costs and benefits of rules. Therefore, we shouldn't be asking the impossible. It certainly has nothing to do with looking at prior expenditures or prior borrowing. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mrs. Boebert The CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 2 printed in part A of House Report 118-108.”