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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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Letter to the Honorable Paul Ryan About the Budget Authority That Would Be Provided By the Continuing Resolution for Fiscal Year 2014 and How That Authority Would Compare With the Statutory Caps in Place for Next Year

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September 12, 2013

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  • The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023

    February 05, 2013

  • CBO’s Projections of Federal Receipts and Expenditures in the National Income and Product Accounts

    May 06, 2013

  • Updated Budget Projections: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023

    May 14, 2013
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How CBO Uses Data for Budget Projections and Cost Estimates

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July 30, 2013

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    June 01, 2005

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    June 11, 2007

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    June 02, 2005

  • H.R. 2548, Federal Property Asset Management Reform Act of 2003

    November 18, 2003

  • H.R. 4879, Military Housing Improvement Act of 2004

    July 30, 2004
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Testimony on the Budgetary Treatment of Medical Facility Leases by the Department of Veterans Affairs

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June 27, 2013

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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

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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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  • Economic Effects of Policies Contributing to Fiscal Tightening in 2013

    November 08, 2012

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    October 25, 2012

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    August 22, 2012

  • The 2012 Long-Term Budget Outlook

    June 05, 2012

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    January 31, 2012

  • The Macroeconomic and Budgetary Effects of an Illustrative Policy for Reducing the Federal Budget Deficit

    July 14, 2011

  • Reducing the Deficit: Spending and Revenue Options

    March 10, 2011

  • Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis

    July 27, 2010
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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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