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- Cost Estimate
As passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on November 15, 2017
- Report
When the Congress considers legislation that would authorize a nonfederal entity to carry out certain duties, CBO must decide whether to treat the associated cash flows as federal transactions when estimating the bill’s budgetary effects.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on May 17, 2017
- Presentation
Presentation by Megan Carroll, an analyst for CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at the Department of Commerce Resource Management Conference.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 15, 2017
- Report
The Senate Budget Committee convened a hearing at which Director Keith Hall testified about CBO’s report The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2017 to 2027. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
- Report
The federal government supports infrastructure investment in a variety of ways. It spends money directly, makes grants to state and local governments for their capital spending and, through the tax system, subsidizes the borrowing of both of those levels of government as well as certain private entities to finance infrastructure projects.
- Report
Letter to the Honorable Judd Gregg
- Blog Post
Today CBO released a letter that contains an estimate of the change in federal costs, adjusted for the cost of market risk, that might result from enactment of the Presidents proposal to prohibit new federal guarantees of student loans and to replace those guarantees with direct loans made by the Department of Education.
- Blog Post
YesterdayCBO released a brief that analyzes intergovernmental issues in the context of The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA). UMRA focuses attention on federal requirements imposed on state, local, and tribal governments and the private sector that are not conditions for receiving federal aid. The law specifies which types of requirements should or should not be considered mandates, establishes procedures that govern Congressional consideration of such mandates, and directs CBO to estimate the costs of mandates.