The Democrats aren’t really running Washington these days; the deficit is. Deficit fears have prompted lawmakers to shy away from even the most popular measures, like an extension of unemployment benefits.
But there’s one major piece of pending legislation that deficit shouldn’t be able to knock down: the American More…
The Congressional Budget Office has released its review of Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. It says the bill reduces the deficit by $21 billion over 10 years, with the money raised coming mostly from charging banks to pay into a fund available to the government to More…
Republicans dismissing as inaccurate the Congressional Budget Office’s cost analysis of the Democrats’ health care reform bills seem to have forgotten history.
In 2004 — amid controversy over the Bush administration’s efforts to bury unflattering cost estimates of the Republican’s More…
The Congressional Budget Office just posted its evaluation of the health reform reconciliation bill the Democrats hope to push through the House this week.
While pointing out that the analysis is preliminary, CBO estimates that enacting both the Senate-passed health reform bill and the reconciliation bill (which contains More…
Unhappy with all the recent tweaks to the Senate’s health care reform legislation, three top Republicans are asking the Congressional Budget Office to re-score the entire bill. In a Monday letter to CBO, Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) argue that “CBO’s complete analysis of More…
One report. Two very different interpretations.
The Congressional Budget Office stirred yet another hornet’s nest Monday when it released its latest analysis of the costs associated with the Democrats’ health care reform bill, with each side of the debate already leaning on the report to bolster its case. More…
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) just took to the House floor to decry the Democrats’ health reform bill because, she said, it would leave too many folks uninsured. She must not have read the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the GOP’s legislative alternative, which, CBO found, would leave 52 More…
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the health reform bill unveiled today by House Democrats comes in under the $900 billion, 10-year threshold set earlier this year by the White House. TPMDC has more:
At $894 billion, the bill’s 10 year cost comes in a hair under President
The Congressional Budget Office last week made a bit of news when it released cost estimates on two different health reform packages being considered by House Democrats, who are trying to bring the cost of their legislation down below $900 billion over 10 years. But, as The Washington More…
Enacting a comprehensive set of medical malpractice reforms would reduce nationwide health care spending by 0.5* percent, according to a report released today by the Congressional Budget Office. Over 10 years, the changes would reduce federal deficits by $54 billion.
Roughly 0.2 percent of the savings would come as a More…
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