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- Report
CBO reviews hundreds of bills and public laws for intergovernmental and private-sector mandates each year and estimates whether the annual costs of those mandates would exceed thresholds established in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act. Data are available for calendar years 2013 through 2019, and new data are added periodically throughout the year.
- Report
The House Budget Committee convened a hearing at which members of CBO's staff testified about the agency’s report Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
- Report
In June 2019, CBO updated its long-term budget projections, including projections of the Social Security system’s finances. CBO compares those projections with its 2018 projections and with the Social Security trustees’ latest projections.
- Presentation
Presentation by Alexandra Minicozzi, a unit chief in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division (HRLD), and Geena Kim, an analyst in HRLD, to the Health Economics Scientific Interest Group at the National Institutes of Health.
- Presentation
Presentation by Megan Carroll, chief of the scorekeeping unit in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, and David Torregrosa, an analyst in CBO’s Financial Analysis Division, at the Southern Economic Association’s Annual Meetings.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 25, 2019
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 25, 2019
- Report
CBO examines choices lawmakers would face in establishing a federal tax on the miles traveled by commercial trucks—including choices about the tax base, rate structure, and implementation methods—and illustrates how such a tax might affect the federal budget.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on July 24, 2019
- Working Paper
The costs of federal activities are recorded in the budget mostly on a cash basis. Using accrual accounting for retirement and insurance programs would accelerate the recognition of long-term costs and display the expected costs of new commitments when they were incurred.