Search
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on December 16, 2009
- Cost Estimate
S. 1519, Nutria Eradication and Control Act of 2009
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on December 16, 2009
- Blog Post
CBO has been asked for additional information about the projected effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the pending health care reform legislation, on the federal budget and on the balance in the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund, from which Medicare Part A benefits are paid.
- Blog Post
CBO has discovered an error in the cost estimate released yesterday related to the longer-term budgetary effects of the managers amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Correcting that error has no impact on the estimated effects of the legislation during the 20102019 period. However, the correction reduces the degree to which the legislation would lower federal deficits in the decade after 2019.
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 3590, incorporating the effects of changes proposed in the manager's amendment released on December 19, 2009
- Blog Post
CBO and the JCT have released an analysis of the budgetary effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Senate Amendment 2786 in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 3590.
- Blog Post
The federal government uses a linked set of three taxes on estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers to tax transfers of wealth at each generation and to limit the extent to which wealth can be given away during life to avoid taxation at death. A scheduled temporary repeal of the estate tax in 2010 has raised interest in modifying such taxes on transfers of wealth. Already, the House has passed legislation (H.R. 4154) that would permanently extend estate and gift tax law as it stands in 2009.
- Cost Estimate
Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Governmental Reform on November 18, 2009
- Blog Post
Yesterday CBO released a cost estimate for S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, which was ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on November 5, 2009. This legislation would make a number of changes in energy and environmental policies largely aimed at reducing emissions of gases that contribute to global warming.