• Assistant Director
    • Peter H. Fontaine 
  • Deputy Assistant Directors
    • Theresa A. Gullo (Natural and physical resources, defense, international affairs, and veterans' affairs programs; housing and financial analysis issues)
    • Holly Harvey (Medicare, Medicaid, and other health programs; income security and education programs)
  • Division Administrative Assistant
    • Darren Young 
  • State and Local Government Cost Estimates Unit
    • Unit Chief
      • Leo K. Lex 
    • Administrative Assistant
      • Ernestine McNeil 
    • Analysts
      • J'nell L. Blanco (Education, defense, international affairs, and agriculture)
      • Elizabeth Cove Delisle (Advancement of commerce, housing credit, general government)
      • Melissa Merrell (Administration of justice, homeland security, community development, disaster relief, immigration, natural resources)
      • Ryan G. Miller (Energy, environment, transportation, and general science, space, and technology)
      • Lisa Ramirez-Branum (Health, income security, Social Security, veterans' affairs)
  • Scorekeeping Unit
    • Unit Chief
      • Janet F. Airis (Legislative Branch appropriations)
    • Administrative Assistant
      • Ernestine McNeil 
    • Analysts
      • Edward C. Blau (Authorizing and direct spending legislation)
      • Joanna (Jodi) Capps (Interior, Labor, HHS, education appropriations)
      • Virginia Myers (Commerce, Justice, financial services, general government appropriations)
      • Jennifer Reynolds (Agriculture, foreign operations appropriations)
      • Mark E. Sanford (Homeland security, defense appropriations)
      • Esther Steinbock (Transportation, HUD, military construction, VA, energy and water appropriations)
  • Projections Unit
    • Unit Chief
      • Jeffrey M. Holland 
    • Administrative Assistant
      • Marion C. Curry 
    • Analysts
      • Shane Beaulieu (Maintenance and enhancement of budget analysis data system and other technical support)
      • Barry Blom (Baseline coordination and report writing, monthly Treasury data, federal pay)
      • Jared Brewster (Interest on the public debt, trust funds, national income and product accounts, baseline coordination and report writing)
      • Mary M. Froehlich (Maintenance and enhancement of budget analysis data system and other technical support)
      • Avi Lerner (Troubled Asset Relief Program)
      • Amber G. Marcellino (Other interest, Civil Service Retirement, historical data, baseline coordination and report writing)
      • Santiago Vallinas (Other retirement, baseline coordination and report writing)
      • Patrice L. Watson (Database system administration)
  • Health Systems and Medicare Cost Estimates Unit
    • Unit Chief
      • Thomas B. Bradley 
    • Analysts
      • Stephanie Cameron (Fee-for-service components of the Medicare program)
      • Lori B. Housman (Medicare: Physicians' services and hospital outpatient services)
      • Jamease Kowalczyk (Medicare fee-for-service payment systems and beneficiary cost sharing)
      • Lara E. Robillard (Medicare and Public Health Service)
  • Low-Income Health Programs and Prescription Drugs Cost Estimates Unit
    • Unit Chief
      • Jean P. Hearne 
    • Analysts
      • Julia M. Christensen (UMWA benefits funds, Food and Drug Administration, prescription drug issues)
      • Sean M. Dunbar (Medicaid long-term care, Children's Health Insurance Program)
      • Kirstin B. Nelson (Medicaid acute care, Federal Employees Health Benefits Program)
      • Andrea K. Noda (Medicaid long-term care, prescription drug issues)
      • Robert W. Stewart (Medicaid acute care, Children's Health Insurance Program)
      • Ellen C. Werble (Food and Drug Administration, prescription drug issues)
      • Rebecca V. Yip (Medicare Part D, prescription drug issues)
  • Income Security and Education Cost Estimates Unit
    • Unit Chief
      • Sam Papenfuss 
    • Analysts
      • Christi Hawley Anthony (Labor, unemployment insurance, Davis-Bacon, Job Corps, AmeriCorps, National Service, National Endowments for Arts and Humanities, the Smithsonian)
      • Chad M. Chirico (Housing assistance, education)
      • Sheila M. Dacey (Social Security, Old-Age and Survivors' Insurance, Social Security financing, PBGC)
      • Kathleen FitzGerald (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, other nutrition programs, immigration)
      • Emily Holcombe (Child nutrition)
      • Justin Humphrey (Elementary and secondary education, student loans, and Pell grants)
      • Deborah A. Kalcevic (Higher education programs)
      • Jonathan P. Morancy (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Foster Care and Adoption Assistance, Child Support Enforcement, Children and Family Services, child care, Social Services Block Grant, and immigration)
      • David Rafferty (Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs, rehabilitation services, and disability research)
      • Alan Stoffer (Low-income home energy assistance, refugee assistance, PBGC; computer programming and research support for income security and education programs)
  • Defense, International Affairs, & Veterans' Affairs Cost Estimates Unit
    • Unit Chief
      • Sarah Jennings 
    • Administrative Assistant
      • Janice M. Johnson 
    • Analysts
      • Kent R. Christensen (Defense projections, working capital funds, procurement, scorekeeping)
      • Sunita C. D'Monte (Conduct of foreign affairs, information/exchange activities, veterans' health care)
      • Raymond J. Hall (Navy procurement, defense space programs, missle defense, atomic energy defense activities, defense research and development)
      • William Ma (Veterans' readjustment benefits, reservists' education benefits)
      • David B. Newman (Air Force aircraft, forces and operations; other services' aircraft, military construction, military family housing, veterans' housing, base closures)
      • Dawn Sauter Regan (Military personnel, compensation)
      • Matthew Schmit (Defense health care, military retirement)
      • Jason Wheelock (DoD operations and maintenance, Army procurement, defense infrastructure, homeland security, chemical weapons)
      • Dwayne Wright (Veterans' compensation, pensions, other income security programs)
  • Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit
    • Unit Chief
      • Kim P. Cawley 
    • Administrative Assistant
      • Rae Wiseman 
    • Analysts
      • Megan E. Carroll (Air transportation, energy, rural electrification)
      • Mark T. Grabowicz (Administration of justice, homeland security, Postal Service)
      • Kathleen Gramp (FCC spectrum auctions, energy, deposit insurance, Outer Continental Shelf receipts, TVA)
      • Gregory H. Hitz (Agriculture)
      • Daniel S. Hoople (Community and regional development, deposit insurance, FEMA)
      • Dave Hull (Agriculture)
      • Jeff LaFave (Indian Affairs, land management)
      • James A. Langley (Agriculture)
      • Susanne S. Mehlman (Rural housing, Federal Housing Administration, other mortgage insurance, GNMA, environmental protection)
      • Matthew Pickford (General government)
      • Sarah Puro (Ground transportation)
      • Deborah S. Reis (Recreational resources, water transportation, legislative branch, land management, Coast Guard)
      • Aurora K. Swanson (Housing finance, water resources)
      • Martin von Gnechten (Administration of justice, general science and space)

Budget Analysis Division

Telephone: (202) 226-2800
Fax: (202) 226-1366

The Budget Analysis Division is responsible for preparing the bill cost estimates and spending projections called for in the Budget Act, including multiyear baseline projections for the total federal budget and the state and local mandate statements required under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act. The division also analyzes the President's spending proposals, leads the agency's efforts in preparing the annual report on the President's budget and the Monthly Budget Review, and produces the report on unauthorized appropriations and expiring authorizations each year. The Congress relies on CBO's cost estimates of legislation and budget projections to prepare its annual budget plan, evaluate the President's budgetary proposals, and keep track of more than $2 trillion in yearly spending.

The division's estimates of costs for federal spending programs come from four units: defense, international affairs, and veterans' affairs; human resources; health; and natural and physical resources. A fifth unit estimates the costs of mandates imposed on state, local, and tribal governments. Other units in the division make budget projections, compile estimates for annual appropriation bills, maintain the budget scorekeeping system, and support the division's computer systems.

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Assistant Director for Budget Analysis

Photograph of Peter Fontaine Peter H. Fontaine came to CBO in 1985. He served as an analyst in and then Chief of the Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit until 1999 and as Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis from 1999 to 2007. Before coming to CBO, he worked for two Washington-area consulting firms, specializing in energy and economic analyses.