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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/20...cans-will-too/ same as it ever was-attacking CBO (as both parties do when in the majority) only shows the strength of the office's findings- the same would be true with my hypo "Character office findings." Would Trump attack the Character Office if it found Kavanaugh unfit? Of course- would it have given cover to a senator or two to vote no, maybe? But mostly it would provide an avenue for an actual finding and a standard for what that finding means- or should mean.
Just because I ran Sidd off doesn't mean this board is dying for someone new to step into the blinkered troll position- fuck I'm almost at the point of going back and rereading if sebby hasn't been right all along.
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From the article I linked:
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It’s normal for politicians to be frustrated with the CBO. It’s a highly respected nonpartisan research group whose estimates of budgetary cost and other effects of legislation are treated as very credible in Washington. That can cause problems for members of Congress and the administration when the numbers don’t come out how they like, and has earned the CBO criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike in the past, some deserved and some not deserved.
What’s not normal is trying to erase the CBO’s formal role in policymaking. The agency normally gets to decide which bills reduce the deficit, meaning they can pass the Senate with a bare majority and avoid a filibuster. That could change this year or next. Senate Republicans got a competing analysis of their health care bill from the Department of Health and Human Services. They’ve also suggested they might do something similar with tax reform. Some House Republicans have even proposed cutting the agency’s staff by 38 percent, and replacing it with an “aggregator” collecting projections from various think tanks.
If that happens, the CBO will be weakened like never before, and face a fight for its own relevance and survival.
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I think it would be great to have an independent evaluation of the sort you're suggesting. I just don't think Republicans will ever agree to it.
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