Time's Kate Pickert: So, Speaker Pelosi, Where's the CBO Score?

[flpoljunkie]

So Speaker Pelosi....

Posted by KATE PICKERT
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 4:44 pm

Where is the CBO score?

There were hints the score would come last week. The by the weekend. Then Monday. Then Tuesday. Earlier today, Talking Points Memo reported that "multiple sources in the House and Senate" said to expect a score by "late today." NBC's Luke Russert just tweeted that the score would be out by 7:30 p.m. today.

I'll believe it when I see it. It seems adjusting the Senate bill via a reconciliation package is a little more complicated than the Speaker expected. Politico's Ben Smith reports the head of the AFL-CIO is about to be briefed again, a sign that expected changes to the Cadillac tax are not going as smoothly as Democrats had hoped.

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/17/so-speaker-pelosi

[babylonsister]

1. And this is Pelosi's problem? Does she have any control over when

the report is released? Not getting the insinuation.

[flpoljunkie]

3. Of course not. it's just an attention getting device.

:)

[Bumblebee]

2. they must be running out of other cliff hangers...

[flpoljunkie]

4. The CBO score is crucial to many conservative/Blue Dog Dems. We need some of their votes.

[Bumblebee]

6. I know -- and it is apparently going to be out by 7:30 tonight

I am just saying the press needs to keep the hysteria over HCR going, that's all.

[Jennicut]

5. Pelosi has no control over when the scores are out, does she?

[flpoljunkie]

7. No, she doesn't.

[karynnj]

8. Was TIME ever this sarcastic to President Bush or Minority Leader McConnell or

or any Republican Speaker of the House - surely, Gingrich would have deserved it.