i know they do the best they can to be objective, but since he got wood sheded at the white house, let me tell you, there have been, i believe it's 56 health care bills that have been scored by c.b.o., we have about 70 bills from republican study committee members to reform health care, 70 bills. and you know how many we have gotten scored on the republican side? six. six bills. i have been begging in writing, all kinds of way, i've had the ranking member of the subcommittee committee of jurisdiction, joe barton, request my bill be scored, i've had dave camp, when they said, you don't have the joint commission ranking member, cave damp -- dave camp requested it. i realize by making a big deal about c.b.o. not scoring republican plans that they may say, oh, gohmert, we'll take your bill, we'll score it you may not like the way it comes out. i realize that's a risk. but i'm telling you it's been so abusive, c.b.o. has done virtually nothing, about a tenth of the republican bills they have scored are democratic bills. if they want to bring equity to this, it is time c.b.o. started scoring

director knowing that you really probably would rather not be wood sheded again at the white house, and knowing that if you do not allow any of these wonderful republican ideas to be scored, you can profoundly change the discussion on health care in america. you can prevent some of the best ideas in america on health care that didn't just come from the people whose names were on the bills. the ideas in my health care bill came from brilliant people around this country who have dealt with the issue. i appreciate newt gingrich sending friends of his over, some of the brightest minds in america on the issue of health care to help come up with what would be the best proposal, best way to do things, i appreciate his help and those he sent over. now you get a score and see what you got. and i appreciate it. i can't get a score because the so-called fair and objective c.b.o. want to score 50 democratic bills, six republican bills and one of those will not be mine. it could make a difference. now i realize, and i've waited a long time to get loud and vocal about the ignoring that republicans ha