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Budget Concepts and Process

Budget enforcement procedures, biennial budgeting, credit reform, capital budgeting, line-item veto, and fair-value accounting: Welcome to CBO's Inside Baseball category. This topic brings together the agency's work on budget concepts, the budget process, and possible budget reforms.
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Information about the Congressional Budget Office’s budgetary treatment of major medical facility leases of the Department of Veterans Affairs

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March 22, 2013

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CBO’s Role in Budget Resolutions

posted by Bob Sunshine on March 11, 2013

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Preliminary Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of Using the Chained CPI for Mandatory Programs and the Tax Code Starting in 2014

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March 1, 2013

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Choices for Deficit Reduction

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November 8, 2012

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The Challenge of Deficit Reduction

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November 8, 2012


Choices for Deficit Reduction

Nov 2012 - Putting the federal budget on a more sustainable path is likely to require a combination of policies, many of which may stand in stark contrast to policies now in place.

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Fair-Value Estimates of the Cost of Federal Credit Programs in 2013

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June 28, 2012


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CBO Releases Report on Fair-Value Estimates of the Cost of Federal Credit Programs in 2013

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June 28, 2012


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List of CBO publications that analyze the budgetary impact of the Budget Control Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-25)

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April 23, 2012

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Reconciliation Recommendations of the House Committee on Financial Services

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April 24, 2012

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