Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing Conducted by the House Committee on the Budget on CBO Oversight: The Role of Behavioral Modeling in Scoring and Baseline Construction
CBO Answers Questions for the Record Following a Hearing by the House Budget Committee on How CBO Does Its Analyses
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The House Budget Committee convened a hearing at which Director Keith Hall testified about how CBO does its analyses. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record by Chairman Womack.
On February 27, 2018, the House Committee on the Budget convened a hearing at which CBO Director Keith Hall testified about how CBO does its analyses, along with Jessica Banthin, Deputy Assistant Director for Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis, and Jeffrey Kling, Associate Director for Economic Analysis. After the hearing, Chairman Womack submitted questions for the record. This document provides CBO’s answers.