Jeff Merkley actually said...

But my point is that initial analysis, be it $1.4 trillion or $1.8 trillion, to get to that analysis CBO had to look at each individual tax ...

And if you do not have it, how did you possibly get to an overall score if you did not cost out the individual provisions, right?

I had difficulty getting the numbers on the individual tax provisions, what they would have costed, to better understand individual policies...

I do think it is an important point to make because what we have seen for a pattern that has increased our debt vastly has been Republican l...