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Gingrich Calls For Privatizing The Congressional Budget Office | GOP frontrunner-of-the week Newt Gingrich reiterated his call for repealing the Congressional Budget Office — the organization responsible for scoring legislation — yesterday, arguing that it “actually constrains what people are allowed to think.” Despite supporting the CBO’s scoring rules in the 1997 Balanced Budget Act and touting its scores to push through legislation throughout his long career in Congress, Gingrich is proposing a plan that would disband the CBO and outsource the job of actuarial analysis to private companies. Watch it:
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