Don Nickles: “I would have to look at the figures. The baseline scored by OMB was 521. The baseline scored by CBO was 477. The figure…”

“I would have to look at the figures. The baseline scored by OMB was 521. The baseline scored by CBO was 477. The figure we had before us in the budget resolution, I would want to check. CBO is in the process of revising that. We use CBO scoring. My guess is it would be significantly less than the 521 by OMB, and 477 by CBO, and we now expect, if we stay with the projections--i.e., the spending figures that we had assumed in the budget resolution, 821 on discretionary spending--the debts would probably be in the neighborhood of not 477 but closer to 420, in spite of the fact that I know my friend from Delaware made a speech last week saying he thought it would be 600. It would be closer to 420.”