Testimony on CBO’s Appropriation Request for Fiscal Year 2016
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CBO Director Douglas W. Elmendorf testified on CBO’s appropriation request for fiscal year 2016 before the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate.
Testimony before the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate.
CBO requests appropriations of $47.3 million for fiscal year 2016. That amount represents an increase of $1.6 million, or 3.4 percent, from the $45.7 million provided to CBO for 2015.
About one-quarter of the requested increase, roughly $440,000, would fund three new full-time-equivalent positions (FTEs): The agency aims to boost its staffing from the 235 FTEs contemplated in the 2015 appropriation to 238 for 2016. The additional FTEs would be devoted to analyzing the economic effects of federal tax and spending policies (including conducting "dynamic analysis" of certain legislation pursuant to a new House rule) and health care issues. The remaining $1.1 million increase (about 2.4 percent) would be devoted to ongoing operations—the result of an increase of nearly $1.7 million in pay and benefits, which would be partly offset by a decrease of about $550,000 in nonpay expenditures.
