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Press
Speeches / Presentations
Implications of Rising Health Care Costs
January 13, 2012 pdf
Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources Linda T. Bilheimer's presentation to the Heritage Foundation
CBO's Use of Evidence in Analysis of Budget and Economic Policies
November 3, 2011 pdfblog post
CBO Associate Director for Economic Analysis Jeffrey R. Kling's presentation at the Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Recent Publications
Monthly Budget Review
February 7, 2012 pdfblog post
Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for December and the Daily Treasury Statements for January
The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022
January 31, 2012 pdfadditional infochartsblog post
Testimony
Testimony on CBO's Appropriation Request for Fiscal Year 2013
February 7, 2012 pdf
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives
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.