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Lamar Smith: “The source of the information that I have used and that Judge Poe has used in saying that the health care bill is going…”

On the recordFebruary 11, 2011
The source of the information that I have used and that Judge Poe has used in saying that the health care bill is going to cost 800,000 jobs is from a report released yesterday by the Congressional Budget Office, saying that the health care bill would cost 800,000 jobs. The CBO, as we all know, is an independent, credible, outside agency upon whom we rely for information on a regular basis. For them to come out and say that the health care bill is going to cost 800,000 jobs is, quite frankly, believable and the reason, I think, we can cite them as a credible source.
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Lamar Smith
Republican · Texas
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Feb 11, 2011

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The speaker discusses a Congressional Budget Office report on job losses due to the health care bill.

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