Committee on the Budget | Reconsideration of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act FY2025
2025-05-19
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Thank you. Okay, the committee will now come to order. Let me start out of courtesy for my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Um, thank you for your patience, uh, and, and for being flexible. And I, uh, uh, sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. I never want to cut your time short with your families because it's so precious and few those moments. Uh, I know that as a dad of three young children. So anyway, I know it, this, it, you know, will happen. I'm sure on both sides from time to time, but, um, I want to just acknowledge that. And if there's. any way in the future that we can avoid these things, you know I'll do it, Mr. Ranking Member. So any quick comment? Yeah, Mr. Chair, if you don't mind, I do have just a couple of parliamentary inquiries. Obviously, this is highly unusual, the fact that we recessed after a failed vote. Friday morning, around lunchtime Friday, and now we're back here late Sunday night. So presumably we are voting again because some folks on your side of the aisle may have changed their mind due to some side agreements. So my parliamentary inquiry is, will the committee be able to see what side agreements have been reached?
Will they be added as either an MTI or just here verbally? reflecting the ways in which now apparently the bill has changed. The deliberations have continued up to this point where we judge this reconciliation bill or the many component parts. as it relates to the budget targets that we've set, and that is what we're voting on. Deliberations continue at this very moment. They will continue on into the week, and I suspect right up until the time we put this big, beautiful bill on the floor of the House. So that's what we're here to do. And we're not going to disclose the deliberations. I'm not sure I could disclose all the deliberations. If I might, I certainly wouldn't. I don't know anything about side deals or any deals. I just know we're at a place where we can take a vote today and not have to be back here for multiple votes. Yeah, I would just, in the interest of transparency, if the bill has changed and there's been some side agreement reached, I think it's important that all the members have the full details on that in advance of any vote. So that way we know in a transparent, honest way exactly what we're voting on. You will get it in the manager's amendment like many of the or like most of the members here. So, I couldn't tell you what is in flux, what is fixed, what might change or not change. As you all well know, this process is fluid, and it will go to the Rules Committee. Most likely, there will be some changes, and that's the way the process goes. So, I know you appreciate that, having been through it before many times. WELL, I HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE CHAIR, BUT I VERY MUCH LOOK FORWARD TO THAT YEAR AND A HALF FROM NOW. Finally, my other parliamentary inquiry, and again, a very serious point.
As you know, we all operate under the 1974 Budget and Empowerment Control Act. It's what set up these committees, what set up Congressional Budget Office, requires a CBO score. We don't have, unless something has happened this weekend that I'm unaware of, we don't have that CBO score in front of us. Do you know when we will get the CBO score, both of the budget bill that we're voting in front of us and the scoring of any changes that it looks like are going to happen? I will look into the timing of any outstanding CBO scores. And I'm certain that if there are outstanding scores, that those will be disclosed before our members vote, before our members collectively, both Democrats and Republicans. Before you vote on the floor. Yeah, yeah. But just let's appreciate how far we've come.
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