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Power Player Plus: CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf

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    CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf on the CBO's critics

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Some critics say.

Did you hear -- CBO are prisoners of the assumptions you're given and that some of those assumptions may not be.

Accurate -- realistic but you have to work with well.

The numbers are given true we don't work the numbers were in and we work with the legislation -- That piece of legislation includes a variety of revenue increases and -- in Medicare.

In order that are used to pay for the expansion of subsidies for health insurance for low income people.

Pomp and number of members of congress and some analysts have said they don't expect that those.

Seem -- will actually be allowed to come to pass and we -- ourselves repeatedly in our analysis of the legislation.

That keeping those saving provisions in place for a long time.

Could be difficult but our job is to -- legislation.

Estimate the cost of legislation that's presented us.