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Presentation
November 1, 2016
Presentation by Megan Carroll, an analyst for CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at the Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business’s Fall Forum.
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Report
October 28, 2016
The House Budget Committee convened a hearing at which CBO testified about its estimates of the budgetary effects of CMMI’s activities. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
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Report
September 7, 2016
On September 7, 2016, CBO Deputy Director Mark Hadley testified on CBO’s estimates of the budgetary effects of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives.
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Report
August 2, 2016
The pensions of some 10 million people are insured by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s multiemployer program. CBO projects future claims on the program and losses to its beneficiaries and analyzes potential policy changes.
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Presentation
June 27, 2016
Slides describing the circumstances under which CBO estimates the revenue effects of changes in funding for tax enforcement and the factors that affect those estimates.
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Presentation
May 23, 2016
Presentation by Megan Carroll and David Newman, analysts in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at the spring symposium of the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis.
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Blog Post
March 15, 2016
The Chairman of the House Budget Committee has announced that the committee will be considering a proposed budget resolution soon. What are budget resolutions, and what is CBO’s role in this process?
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Presentation
February 29, 2016
Presentation by Wendy Edelberg, an Associate Director for Economic Analysis at CBO, at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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Presentation
February 23, 2016
Presentation by Keith Hall, CBO Director, at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.
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Cost Estimate
January 15, 2016
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on December 9, 2015
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Presentation
November 19, 2015
Presentation by Ben Page, CBO’s Fiscal Policy Studies Unit Chief, at the National Tax Association 108th Annual Conference on Taxation
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Presentation
November 17, 2015
Presentation by Wendy Edelberg, CBO’s Assistant Director for Macroeconomic Analysis, and Teri Gullo, CBO’s Assistant Director for Budget Analysis, to Congressional Staff
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Presentation
October 29, 2015
Presentation by Wendy Edelberg, CBO’s Assistant Director for Macroeconomic Analysis, and Teri Gullo, CBO’s Assistant Director for Budget Analysis, at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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Presentation
October 21, 2015
Presentation by Wendy Edelberg, CBO’s Assistant Director for Macroeconomic Analysis, at the American Enterprise Institute, describing how CBO will incorporate macroeconomic effects into certain cost 10-year estimates.
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Presentation
October 19, 2015
Presentation by Meredith Decker, an Associate Analyst in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, to Congressional staff, explaining the federal debt limit and the “extraordinary” measures the Treasury takes when the debt reaches that limit.
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Presentation
September 22, 2015
Presentation by Wendy Edelberg, CBO’s Assistant Director for Macroeconomic Analysis, at the Brookings Institution
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Presentation
September 17, 2015
Presentation by Keith Hall, CBO Director, to the Society of Government Economists.
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Presentation
June 17, 2015
Presentation by Keith Hall, CBO Director, at the Heritage Foundation
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Presentation
May 14, 2015
Presentation by Wendy Edelberg, Assistant Director for CBO’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division, at the Conference of Business Economists.
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Report
October 20, 2014
In this report, CBO provides background on the methods used to estimate the costs of antifraud legislation.
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Blog Post
September 15, 2014
Last week Director Doug Elmendorf spoke at Macroeconomic Advisers’ Washington Policy Seminar and at Cornell University.
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Presentation
July 14, 2014
Presentation by Rob Stewart, CBO Analyst, to the Alliance for Health Reform
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Report
June 25, 2014
CBO finds that Ex-Im Bank’s credit programs would generate a budgetary cost using fair-value accounting—as opposed to savings under the current approach for measuring costs—because it more fully accounts for risk the government takes on.
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Presentation
June 19, 2014
Presentation by Peter Fontaine, CBO’s Assistant Director for Budget Analysis, to a Global Network of Parliamentary Budget Offices Community Meeting Sponsored by the World Bank Institute
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Blog Post
June 19, 2014
Peter Fontaine, CBO’s Assistant Director for Budget Analysis, gave two presentations at a meeting of the Global Network of Parliamentary Budget Offices, which was sponsored by the World Bank Institute.
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Report
June 11, 2014
How can lawmakers address the imbalance between revenues and spending in the Highway Trust Fund? How does the unique budgetary classification of surface transportation programs limit the effectiveness of standard spending controls?
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Presentation
June 11, 2014
To show how transportation funding is handled in CBO’s cost estimates, this slide deck provides a guide to the agency’s 2012 estimate of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act.
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Report
May 22, 2014
The budgetary costs shown for selected credit programs would be higher under fair-value accounting—an alternative to the current approach for measuring costs—because it more fully accounts for the cost of the risk the government takes on.
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Blog Post
April 1, 2014
Past experience indicates that CBO will receive lots of questions about the House’s proposed budget resolution and CBO’s “estimates” of its impact. This post explains a bit about such resolutions.
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Report
March 25, 2014
Letter to the Honorable Paul Ryan Regarding Federal Spending for Major Mandatory Spending Programs and Tax Credits that are Primarily Means-Tested