. >> host: doug bowman to refuse to work for dick gephardt? >> guest: i am not sure. it is possible to seven is there a professional staff has well that goes through the administration? >> guest: there is. interestingly nonprofessional like you would find with most federal agencies. first, dominated by a ph.d. economist that you cannot find in the federal agency usually but the cbo staff work at the pleasure of the director. of a director could come in to clean house on the number one if they wanted. in that respect the relation of the cbo staff and director is like the relationship of the congressional staff to a member of congress. no director has ever come in and decided to clean house and a number one because there's a lot of expertise that resides in the cbo staff so the practice has been for the staff to stay from one director to another but really because that is what the directors have chosen to do. there was one case when o'neill director was appointed just after the republicans took back congress 1994 that the assumption was she would come in and clean the p