UPDATE, 9:00 p.m.: On its blog CBO says it has adjusted the deficit reduction number again -- now projecting a $109 billion cut in deficits over ten years.
Perhaps by Saturday it will make up its mind.
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In a letter released last night the Congressional Budget Office said a slight change in the House Democrats' health care bill has increased the amount of deficit reduction the measure would accomplish.
Earlier this week CBO said the bill would cut projected deficits by $104 billion over ten years. Now, CBO says, the Dems' measure would cut the deficit by $129 billion over the same period.
CBO says the added deficit reduction comes primarily with a part of the bill that changes the tax credit system for biofuels (CBO doesn't say what a biofuels tax credit provision is doing in a health care bill.)
CBO has also changed, slightly, the cost of the bill. It's now down to $1.052 trillion, not $1.055 trillion, and the net cost of expanding insurance is now $891 billion, not $894 billion.
The whole thing is attached below.
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NO! To public option for illegal immigrants.
WITHOUT ANY FEAR OF CONTRADICTION ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE STOPPED. Very few politicians have tried to halt the occupancy by foreign invaders to our country? This is why the E-Verify mechanism was never mandated, owing to the fact that Americans are last to be a priority, specially the 15.3 million jobless workers. Already Hispanic Caucuses have confronted President Obama at the White House, with the chair of the House Rules Committee indicating they are giving the Caucuses what they have adamantly demanded. Rep. Louise Slaughter D-N.Y indicated that the House will have to vote on a bill that allows illegal aliens to use the new health care "exchange". A loophole that does not require verification to keep illegal aliens out of the other parts of the proposed new federal health care system. Please call all House-Senate Members and urge them to vote against the rule that provides a weak verification mechanism that still allows illegal aliens to purchase insurance from the health care exchange. WE MUST JAM THE SWITCHBOARDS IN WASHINGTON, PUSHING OUR OWN DEMANDS at 202-224-3121 that bars illegal aliens from the health care insurance "exchange" YOUR VOICE IS MAKING AN IMMENSE DIFFERENCE TO HOW THE POLITICIANS VOTE? WARN THEM OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF IGNORING PUBLIC OPINION.
Other pieces of information contributing to the dilemma of US legal population: Senate Census allows to Count Illegal Aliens for Congressional Districting . CBO Says New Health Care Bill Would Cover 2.5 Million More Illegal Aliens. Sen. Reid Kills E-Verify Amendment to Unemployment extension Bill. Pro-Enforcement Candidates win in Virginia and New Jersey. 68% of Americans Oppose Sanctuary Cities
You can learn about the corruption and incompetence of lawmakers at NUMBERSUSA. Court cases, political sleaze and immigration non-enforcement at JUDICIAL WATCH. How population growth will effect future generations at CAPSWEB. NO BLANKET AMNESTY!