Louie Gohmert: “I thank my friend from Florida for those remarks. Mr. Gaetz represents the First District of Florida, a brother in arms…”

“I thank my friend from Florida for those remarks. Mr. Gaetz represents the First District of Florida, a brother in arms, since I represent the First District of Texas. We are very grateful for Brian Mast and what he has given for his country, what he has been willing to give for his country; and it is an honor to serve with him in the trenches--sometimes literal trenches around here--a great, honorable patriot for America. On Monday, that is what we will celebrate, Memorial Day, and I want to talk further about that. Right now I want to touch on an issue that has occupied a lot of people's concern and time this week over CBO scoring, rather important, but it should not be. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Tax Commission do the scoring. Historically, the projections by CBO seem all too often to be far too out of line that any governmental entity would base important critical decisions over people's lives, their healthcare--it will certainly affect their lives--and base it on a group that, as they have explained: We set up models. And we feed the garbage--they don't use that term. But, as far as I am concerned, they feed garbage in and they get garbage out. And projections: Oh, we have to wait and see what CBO says. People waiting with bated breath: Oh, is it going to be in line? For heaven's sake, anybody that waits on a score for the JTC or the CBO in dealing with the tax reform that we should do doesn't have much sense.…”