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Speeches / Presentations
Fiscal Policy Choices
November 19, 2010 pdfblog post
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf's presentation to the Society of Government Economists
Fiscal Policy Choices
November 19, 2010 pdfblog post
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf's presentation to the National Tax Association
Recent Publications
Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- November 2010
November 29, 2010 pdfblog post
Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output From July 2010 Through September 2010
November 24, 2010 pdfblog post
Testimony
The Economic Outlook and Fiscal Policy Choices
September 28, 2010pdfchartsblog post
Testimony before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate
About the Director
Douglas W. Elmendorf is the eighth Director of CBO. His appointment began on January 22, 2009. Before he came to CBO, Dr. Elmendorf was a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. As the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar, Dr. Elmendorf served as coeditor of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and the director of the Hamilton Project, an initiative to promote economic growth. His areas of expertise are macroeconomics, the financial system, public economics, and fiscal policy, and his latest research at Brookings focused on policy responses to the current mortgage and financial crisis and on economic volatility at the aggregate and household levels. blog
About the Deputy Director
Robert A. Sunshine, CBO's Deputy Director, has been with the agency almost since its inception. He previously served as the Assistant Director for Budget Analysis, where he supervised the preparation of cost estimates, baseline spending estimates, the analysis of the President's budget, and work related to the budget scorekeeping system. He also coordinated work on CBO's Monthly Budget Review. In 2003, he received the AABPA's James L. Blum Award for exceptional and distinguished accomplishment and leadership in public budgeting.