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More than temporary. That would be a permanent slowing of the growth of the Social Security spending. Rose what do you think of that . Not going happen. Rose why not . First of all t would be desirable if it would but its not going to. Because i think at this point the white house has made it clear that they view thises a repeated game or repeated thing that, you know, every year or so were going to have these kinds of issues. And that if they said they werent going to negotiate and start negotiating what happens next year or the year thereafter or the year thereafter. So i think the way out o...

More than temporary. That would be a permanent slowing of the growth of the Social Security spending. Rose what do you think of that . Not going happen. Rose why not . First of all t would be desirable if it would but its not going to. Because i think at this point the white house has made it clear that they view thises a repeated game or repeated thing that, you know, every year or so were going to have these kinds of issues. And that if they said they werent going to negotiate and start negotiating what happens next year or the year thereafter or the year thereafter. So i think the way out o...

Be zero by enterprise. It can be anywhere. Maybe somebody comes up negative five and that balances it somehow. I dont care where it is. I wanted to leave it to you and staff to figure out how to accomplish that. All right. Well give it a shot. Again, the process has achieved part of the objective. I will say twothirds of it. You have done a lot of work already to trade things off and its also very transparent. I can look at those and the objectives. Its the closed piece, that last piece is what im looking at and also it should go without saying that it doesnt sacrifice my favorite projects or ...

Financial plans for water heche and power and thats as you develop the heche plan would need to revolve that. The final is a question, one of the things that i had asked for at the beginning of this was some kind of review of the Commission Adopted policies to see how this budget either accomplishes or fails to accomplish the objectives this commission has set up in policies. I know you have done a lot of work on that. Todd has this incredible binder on every policy we have on that and going back on it. Are we going to get a summary of how that looks . There are over a dozen policies. We are c...

Theks the hush falls over the hush falls over the room. We will start. Our guest today is douglas Congressional Budget Office director. This is his fifth visit to our room. Of the cbo inctor january, two thousand nine and brings an impressive background assignments. His master masters and doctorate in economics are from harvard. Our guest taught at harvard, and was on the staff of the council of economic advisers and the Federal Reserve board and served as the assistant deputy treasury secretary for policy. He was senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program it at bookings. Ritual recitation ...