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- Presentation
Presentation by Doug Elmendorf, CBO Director, at the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution.
- Blog Post
At a conference organized by the Brookings Institution, Director Doug Elmendorf discussed the ways in which CBO quantifies uncertainty and why most of the agency’s estimates are presented as point values.
- Cost Estimate
As posted on the website of the House Committee on Rules on December 9, 2014
- Report
CBO periodically issues a compendium of options—this installment presents 79—to inform lawmakers about the budgetary effects of ways to reduce the deficit. The report has both interactive and printable formats.
- Report
The federal government influences innovation through two broad channels: spending and tax policies, and the legal and regulatory systems. Policymakers have a number of options for spurring additional innovation.
- Report
In 2011, households in the top, middle, and bottom quintiles received 52, 14, and 5 percent of the nation's before-tax income, respectively; the shares of federal taxes paid by those households were 69, 9, and 1 percent.
- Cost Estimate
As reported by the Senate Committee on Armed Services on June 2, 2014
- Report
In this report, CBO provides background on the methods used to estimate the costs of antifraud legislation.
- Working Paper
Although the Medicare Part D program generally encourages plan sponsors to submit low bids, this paper explores rules relating to low-income beneficiaries that generate a different set of incentives for plans that serve those beneficiaries.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on June 24, 2014