CBO recently transmitted to the Congress a table showing budget projections for policy paths that may serve as useful alternatives to CBOs current-law baseline projections. The new table is very similar to the table of selected policy alternatives that CBO published in January in our Budget Outlook report, reflecting CBOs updated March baseline projections.
May 2009
Today's Wall Street Journal quotes me saying that CBO has between 40 and 50 people working "more than full time" on health reform. Yesterday's Politico included me in an article about "Names, Faces to Watch for In Debate Over Care," and the story referred to "Elmendorf and his team of anonymous analysts."
Human activities around the worldprimarily fossil fueluse, forestry, and agricultureare producing growing quantities of emissions of greenhouse gases, other gases, and particulates and are also greatly altering the Earths vegetative cover.