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  • CBO's Economic Forecasting Record

    July 30, 2009

    Today CBO released an evaluation of the accuracy of its economic forecasts by comparing those forecasts with the economys actual performance and with the projections of other forecasters. The study examines the two-year ahead forecast accuracy and the five-year ahead forecast accuracy for a variety of macroeconomic variables, such as real GDP, inflation, and interest rates. Thirty-two CBO forecasts, those made early each year from 1976 to 2007, are included in the study.

  • Subsidy Costs for Direct vs. Guaranteed Student Loans

    July 27, 2009
  • Additional Information Regarding the Effects of Health Insurance Coverage Specifications Reflected in the America

    July 26, 2009
  • Approaches for Giving the President Broad Authority to Change Medicare

    July 26, 2009
  • The Effects of Health Reform Legislation beyond the Next Decade

    July 24, 2009
  • CBO's Independence

    July 23, 2009
  • Meeting at the White House

    July 21, 2009
  • Preliminary Analysis of the House Democrats' Health Reform Proposal

    July 18, 2009

    Yesterday CBO released a preliminary analysis, conducted with the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), of H.R. 3200, the Americas Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, as introduced by several House committees on July 14. Earlier this week, CBO released a preliminary report on the health insurance coverage provisions of the bill; this latest report added analysis of the other provisions.

  • Modernization of Coast Guard Cutters and Naval Surface Combatants

    July 17, 2009
  • The Long-Term Budget Outlook

    July 16, 2009
  • Intergovernmental Mandates in Federal Legislation

    July 15, 2009

    YesterdayCBO released a brief that analyzes intergovernmental issues in the context of The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA). UMRA focuses attention on federal requirements imposed on state, local, and tribal governments and the private sector that are not conditions for receiving federal aid. The law specifies which types of requirements should or should not be considered mandates, establishes procedures that govern Congressional consideration of such mandates, and directs CBO to estimate the costs of mandates.

  • House Democrats' Health Reform Proposal: Preliminary Analysis of Major Provisions Related to Insurance Coverage

    July 14, 2009

    CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) worked together to produce a preliminary analysis of the major provisions related to health insurance coverage that are contained in draft legislation called the Americas Affordable Health Choices Act, which was released today by several House committees.

  • Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2009

    July 14, 2009
  • Effects of Changes to the Health Insurance System on Labor Markets

    July 13, 2009
  • Effect of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 on Different Regions of the Country

    July 9, 2009
  • June Budget Results

    July 8, 2009
  • Likely Effects of Substantially Expanding Eligibility for Medicaid

    July 7, 2009
  • CBO's Analysis of a Proposed Federal Insurance Program for Long-Term Care

    July 7, 2009

    Yesterday CBO released a letter in response to a request for additional information regarding our analysis of provisions of the Affordable Health Choices Act that would establish a federal insurance program for long-term care. Those provisions are called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (the CLASS Act) and are currently under consideration by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

  • Reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the House's Climate and Energy Bill

    July 4, 2009

    The American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454), recently passed by the House of Representatives, would establish two cap-and-trade programs for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. One small program would apply only to hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) while a much larger program would apply to other types of GHG emissionspractically all emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels plus a fraction of other emissions from industrial and agricultural sources.

  • New CBO Cost Estimate for Health Care Legislation

    July 3, 2009

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