Congressional Budget Office Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking

Name: Congressional Budget Office Honest Numbers, Power, and Policymaking
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ISBN: 9781589017573

ISBN-10: 1589017579

ISBN-13: 9781589017573

Edition: 2011

Authors: Philip G. Joyce

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Created in 1974, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become one of the most influential forces in national policymaking. A critical component of our system of checks and balances, the CBO has given Congress the analytical capacity to challenge the president on budget issues while it protects the public interest, providing honest numbers about Congress's own budget proposals. The book discusses the CBO's role in larger budget policy and the more narrow "scoring" of individual legislation, such as its role in the 2009--2010 Obama health care reform. It also describes how the first director, Alice Rivlin, and seven successors managed to create and sustain a nonpartisan, highly…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication date: 4/18/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946



Acknowledgments



Truth, Power, and Consequences



Organizing for Nonpartisan Analysis



Macrobudgeting



Microbudgeting



Policy Analysis



ClintonHealth Plans: Brining It All Together



Obama Health Care Reform



An Excellent Skunk?


Index