[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[HO]
[Pages 3916-3917]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          UNCERTAIN CBO SCORE

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, the preliminary cost 
estimate from the Congressional Budget Office for the health care 
takeover is $940 billion. It is bizarre. Some of my colleagues on the 
other side of the aisle are spinning this number.
  How many Americans today actually believe that the number will hold 
at $940 billion and will decrease deficits? I doubt there are very few 
people out there who are willing to count on Congress to actually hold 
the line on spending. That defies history and reality.

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  The facts are that even the CBO says this is uncertain, and the CBO 
has not extrapolated estimates further into the future because the 
uncertainties surrounding them are magnified even more.
  The bottom line is that only in Washington can you claim that 
Congress will borrow a trillion dollars and somehow save money. The 
only certainty is NFIB projects this bill will kill 1.6 million jobs.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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