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Release of Reid’s Energy Bill Delayed Until Tomorrow

By | 07.26.10 | 4:28 pm

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will delay the release of his energy legislation until tomorrow in order to give the Congressional Budget Office more time to review the bill.

According to Jim Manley, Reid’s spokesperson:

Reid Doesn’t Want ‘Piecemeal’ Immigration Reform

By | 07.13.10 | 12:10 pm

Don’t expect to see Harry Reid break up immigration reform into small pieces — at least not if one of those pieces is an expansion of the E-Verify program. The Senate majority leader told a Nevada news station yesterday that he stands behind his decision to More…

Jacob Lew to Move from State to Office of Management and Budget

By | 07.13.10 | 11:19 am

For all the wonks out there: President Obama said today that he plans to nominate Jacob Lew, the deputy secretary of state for management and resources, to become director of the Office of Management and Budget. Peter Orszag, the current head of OMB, is leaving for the Council on More…

CBO Was Definitive Word on GOP’s Health Care Reforms

By | 03.19.10 | 3:11 pm

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…

CBO: Health Reform Would Cut Deficit by $138 Billion

By | 03.18.10 | 11:15 am

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…

Republicans Request New CBO Score of Health Bill

By | 12.15.09 | 11:23 am

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…

Something for Everyone in the CBO’s Latest Health Reform Analysis

By | 11.30.09 | 5:31 pm

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…

Obama: I’ll Tell You How This War Ends

By | 11.18.09 | 9:06 am

From Beijing, President Obama says that his imminent announcement of refined Afghanistan strategy will contain some very important details:

“I am very confident that when I announce the decision, the American people will have a lot of clarity about what we’re doing, how we’re going to succeed, how much

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GOP Health Bill Would Leave 52 Million Uninsured

By | 11.05.09 | 10:38 am

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…

Good News for House Dems on Health Care

By | 10.29.09 | 5:20 pm

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

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