Since 1975, CBO has produced nonpartisan budgetary and economic analyses that support the Congressional budget process. Taking a number of steps to ensure that all of its work is objective, impartial, and nonpartisan, CBO works hard to make its analysis transparent.
Publications go well beyond simply presenting results; instead, the agency explains the basis of its findings so that Members of Congress, their staff, and outside analysts can understand the results and question the methodologies used.