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- Presentation
Presentation by Mark Hadley, CBO's Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, for an annual seminar of the European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation.
- Report
Rescissions are provisions of law that cancel budget authority previously provided to federal agencies before it would otherwise expire. This document provides answers to key questions about how CBO estimates savings from rescissions.
- Blog Post
CBO is engaged in many efforts to foster transparency, such as providing information to help people understand the federal budget process and the agency’s role in it. This week, CBO released three more primers as part of those efforts.
- Report
As defined by the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, mandates generally require a nonfederal entity to take an action or comply with a prohibition. This primer describes the principles that CBO follows to identify mandates in legislation.
- Report
CBO is required to regularly prepare a baseline consisting of projections of federal revenues, spending, deficits or surpluses, and debt under current law. This document describes the laws that govern how CBO prepares those projections.
- Cost Estimate
As posted by the House Committee on Rules on May 5, 2023 at https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-2
- Report
To show how variations in economic conditions might affect its budget projections, CBO analyzed how revenues, outlays, and deficits might change if the values of key economic variables differed from those in the agency’s forecast.
- Report
CBO reports annually on programs whose authorizations of appropriations have already expired or will expire.
- Report
CBO describes features of the Medicare and Medicaid improvement funds and how the funds are accounted for in CBO’s baseline and cost estimates.
- Report
The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires CBO to produce an annual report on federal spending, revenues, and deficits or surpluses. This document provides answers to questions about how CBO prepares those baseline budget projections.