Democratic leadership is ‘absolutely giddy’ over CBO score

Published March 18, 2010 4:00am ET



House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C. says the Democratic leadership is “absolutely giddy” over a new cost estimate of their health care plan the Congressional Budget Office has come up with.

According to the CBO, their bill would cost $940 billion over the next decade and would save $138 billion during that time. In the following decade, the bill would save $1.2 trillion, Democrats say.

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