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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
Immigration Policy in the United States: An Update
December 3, 2010 pdfblog post
Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- November 2010
November 29, 2010 pdfblog post
Trends in Federal Tax Revenues and Rates
December 2, 2010 pdfblog post
Testimony before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate
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
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.