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The bipartisan supercommittee's proposal for addressing the nation's debt woes is due two weeks from Wednesday, but the panel already has hit a deadline that Congress' official scorekeeper says should be met to ensure the numbers add up.
"At the end of the day, what CBO has to score is what actually is written down in legislative language, which may end up looking different," Mr. Marron said. "The real risk from a scoring/timing point of view is the members come up with something on the fly."
"I would be stunned if [supercommittee members and staff] weren't talking to CBO staff all the way through this process," said Donald B. Marron Jr., who served as acting CBO director in 2006.
