The Senator said I took the most pessimistic assumption. I correct him. All my statements and the charts are on the middle assumption, not the most pessimistic assumption. The most pessimistic assumption says this bill has real problems. I did not use that. I used the middle assumption.
Defending his use of assumptions in a discussion about a bill.
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