Search
- Report
This brief describes the economic conditions and budgeting practices that can lead to significant budgetary challenges--often termed fiscal stress--at the local level.
- Report
This document presents data through 2009 on permanent and temporary admissions of foreign nationals to the United States, the number and types of visas issued, the naturalization of residents, and enforcement of immigration laws.
- Blog Post
Today CBO released an update to its February 2006 paper Immigration Policy in the United States. The publication is a collection of tables and figures with descriptive text (shown below). The update presents data through 2009 and makes comparisons with 2004, the most recent year for which most data were reported in the earlier paper.
- Report
In fiscal year 2007 total public spending for transportation and water infrastructure was $356 billion, or 2.4 percent of the nation’s economic output as measured by its gross domestic product.
- Blog Post
The nations transportation and water infrastructureits highways, airports, water supply systems, wastewater treatment plants, and other facilitiesplays a vital role in the economy. Private commercial activities and the daily lives of individuals depend on that physical infrastructure, which is provided by all levels of government in the United States.
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the act as cleared by the Congress on August 12, 2010, and signed by the President on August 13, 2010.
- Cost Estimate
Pay-as-you-go estimate for the bill with amendments posted on the Web site of the House Committee on Rules on July 1, 2010
- Blog Post
The federal governmentthrough laws and regulationssometimes requires state, local, and tribal governments and various entities in the private sector to expend resources to achieve national goals. In 1995, the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) became law, aimed at ensuring that, during the legislative process, the Congress receives information about such proposed requirements, known as federal mandates, before enacting a piece of legislation. UMRA defines a legislative provision as a mandate if that provision, when enacted, would
- Report
A Review of CBO's Activities in 2009 Under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
- Report
CBO reports annually to the Congress on programs funded for the current fiscal year whose authorizations of appropriations have expired and on programs whose authorizations of appropriations will expire during the current fiscal year.