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September 24, 2009

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CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf

“A formal cost estimate would require — we have said this to people on the House and Senate side — would really require two weeks of work by us, once a package is settled. And that may seem like a long time, but it — there are a lot of complications in doing this right, as you need it to be done and it is the interaction effects among the provisions, it is the reading and the legislative language,” — (September 22, 2009 at Senate Finance Committee hearing)

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