[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26207]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, we have heard people on both sides of the 
aisle talk about the Congressional Budget Office, the CBO, as this 
unbiased entity, and it has a proud history of being unbiased. But the 
fact is that after the CBO director got called to the woodshed, to the 
White House, after CBO delivered a score that the White House did not 
like, it has become more of a lapdog than a watchdog.
  One example is, we keep hearing people across the aisle. There were 1 
minutes given over and over last week asking, Where is the Republican 
bill? We have a number of bills. I have had one filed since the end of 
July. We have specifically asked CBO to give us a score since August 
19. They said show support from your party. Every leader who had an 
impact--they told us they could help get it scored--has requested it. 
We have been shut out. We have been shut out. Where is that unbiased 
body? It is sad they have disappeared.

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