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I am delighted to report that CBO has again been recognized by the Partnership for Public Service as one of the “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government.” In our third year of participation, CBO was second among 29 agencies in the small agency category. (You can see the results for all participating federal agencies at the Partnership’s Best Places to Work website.)
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The Congressional Budget Office will release The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update on Wednesday, August 22. That report, which CBO issues annually in the late summer, will contain the agency’s updated economic and budget projections spanning the period from 2012 through 2022. It will be available on CBO’s website at 10:00 a.m. (Details about arrangements for the press may be found on the press page.)
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As I mentioned yesterday, CBO’s work benefits greatly from many outside experts. In addition to CBO’s Panel of Economic Advisers (whose members are listed in my previous post), we also rely on CBO’s Panel of Health Advisers to provide expertise on a variety of health care issues. Below is a list of current panel members: Henry Aaron, Ph.D. Senior Fellow, Economic Studies The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Chair Brookings Institution
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CBO learns from many outside experts. Part of that learning comes through our panels of advisers, a Panel of Economic Advisers and a Panel of Health Advisers, which consist of widely recognized specialists on a range of issues. Those groups—whose membership includes previous CBO directors, other distinguished economists, and acknowledged experts in health care—meet to discuss important analytical issues in their areas of expertise and to advise the agency on its analyses.
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Testimony before the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate
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CBO plans to release its updated baseline projections of federal spending, revenues, and budget deficits for the 2012–2022 period on Tuesday, March 13. CBO’s analysis of the President’s budgetary proposals will be released in a separate report a few days later.
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Eleven years may not sound like a long time. But if you’re a website, it’s an eternity. CBO’s site has had a few coats of paint and a couple of replacement parts added over the years, but under the hood it was starting to look like…well, like an 11-year-old website. And so our old site has headed off to a well-deserved retirement.
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Testimony before the Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives
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The Wall Street Journal has just published an article entitled “Congress’s Number Cruncher Comes Under Fire.” Here’s our view: