Thank you. Very insightful.

I think, is our responsibility here.

I think we think, well, some people are Tom Brady and can slow the game down and some can't.

I think this is the future.

With CBO, Congress has its own independent source of cost estimates for legislation, assessments of the President's budget proposals, and projections of the future path of spending, revenue, and deficits.

The Federal Government's ability, both executive and legislative branches, to identify emerging issues and to put in place actions to prevent these things from occurring is in need of change.

I look at your reports and I see the work that that you are doing and I hear your testimony and your team's analysis of all of this generally and in particular and just think, with regard to the intelligence community, how valuable it…

CBO has become so much a part of this institution that we may take it for granted, but we should remember what a key role CBO plays in helping Congress effectively exercise the power of the purse assigned to us by the United States…

We could get the money upfront, right.

I mean, we probably wouldn't look as poor as we are now or the deficits wouldn't look as bad or the debt wouldn't look as bad if we took into account the assets of the Federal Government.

I am just kind of tapping into your expertise here.