Congressional Budget Office - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Neera Tanden

...expenditures by the projections of CBO [Congressional Budget Office] and wha...
...by the projections of CBO [ Congressional Budget Office ] and what the federal government woul...
...of disinformation, the fact that the Congressional Budget Office said twenty million people would los...

Cecilia Muñoz

...on the same day that we got the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] report on the bill, which tell...
...got the Congressional Budget Office [ CBO ] report on the bill, which tells yo...
...to the Treasury. We had no idea CBO was an independent office. We had n...
...you could make the calculations. The CBO score comes out, and they find hug...

Paul Ryan

...two years in think-tank mode, with the Congressional Budget Office , digging in the numbers, buildin...
...having a committee staff, having CBO [Congressional Budget Office] at m...
...having a committee staff, having CBO [ Congressional Budget Office ] at my fingertips—I could reall...
...I spent two years writing it with CBO . Again, remember, Orszag—you know wh...
...get along pretty well, but Orszag was CBO director, knew what I was working on...

...because I was running numbers over at CBO . Then he goes over to become OM...

Jason Furman

...money was a little bit faster than what CBO [Congressional Budget Office...
...was a little bit faster than what CBO [ Congressional Budget Office ] predicted. And we were looking a...
...were looking at similar numbers to the CBO ones. Then there's high-speed rail...
...But we were very much beholden to the Congressional Budget Office for those estimates. They had ...
...I tried to reach the director of the Congressional Budget Office who was my friend, Doug [Douglas W....

...numbers weren't being certified by the Congressional Budget Office . And I developed three differen...
...which we want to do. They went to the Congressional Budget Office , and the Congressional Budget Offic...
...Congressional Budget Office, and the Congressional Budget Office said, “Actually, you need to do al...
...for that. In February 2014 the Congressional Budget Office predicted that five hundred thousan...
...in that tradeoff. And you counter the CBO 's [Congressional Budget Office...
...tradeoff. And you counter the CBO's [ Congressional Budget Office ] analysis of what those effects migh...
...or predictions or analyses from CBO ? Yes, and I was incredibl...
...I did basically two big commentaries on CBO . One was when they came out with th...
...these Republicans are mischaracterizing CBO . I agree with CBO, here's what CB...
...are mischaracterizing CBO. I agree with CBO , here's what CBO meant, and here'...
...CBO. I agree with CBO, here's what CBO meant, and here's what—you know, the...
...That made me uncomfortable. I think CBO is such an important arbiter of debate...
...country. I think that the legitimacy of CBO is really, really important. That bein...

Bob Kocher

...spent in US healthcare costs. Now, the Congressional Budget Office had scored defensive medicine an...
...finish. Remember, we needed to get a CBO [Congressional Budget Office] score. W...
...Remember, we needed to get a CBO [ Congressional Budget Office ] score. We wanted the bill to be pai...
...up with new versions, presenting it to CBO . You would just have this never-endin...
...and just say, Here's the bill. Get CBO to score it, have it all balanced, an...

...over the subsequent decade, that the Congressional Budget Office predictions for numbers of American...

Christina Romer

...had done a lot of work when he had been CBO [Congressional Budget Office] director...
...a lot of work when he had been CBO [ Congressional Budget Office ] director, and I read their reports...

Peter Orszag

...Orszag served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office [CBO]. In this interview, we will no...
...of the Congressional Budget Office [ CBO ]. In this interview, we will not b...
...time, I was serving as the head of the Congressional Budget Office , and there had been some ver...
...but I didn't think, given that the CBO was nonpartisan, that it was reall...
...I'm like, “I'm running the Congressional Budget Office . I'm not sitting on the sidelines....

...into government than politics, and the CBO job is a good fit for someone who'...
...you “brought a sense of fairness to the Congressional Budget Office ,” and that you gave members o...
...for.” When you became director of the CBO , had you set out to change the way th...
...wanted to achieve something, and the CBO process then was so opaque that the...
...understand what moved the needle on the CBO scoring. So, I likened it to a game o...
...x, here are the things that, in CBO 's opinion, will move the needle.” An...
...healthcare congressional debate, CBO got thrown into the deep end ver...
...and it was predicted, including by the Congressional Budget Office , that that would be the death knel...
...the Medicare Commission: after the CBO had published its analysis that th...
...nailed it, which is, an agency like the Congressional Budget Office —for understandable reasons, I'...
...one challenge. The second challenge is, CBO struggles, for understandable reasons...
...change, not because it's necessarily CBO 's job to do that, but because peopl...
...because people then misunderstand the CBO 's score. If the CBO's score is “littl...
...misunderstand the CBO's score. If the CBO 's score is “little impact,” that mean...
...it won't have any impact. And what CBO is really saying is, “We don't have ...
...forcefully. I was probably the first CBO director to—I think I gave a speech...
...the messaging harder. Things like the CBO scoring make it even harder becaus...
...the budget director and the former CBO director to speak with those folks—an...
...But it would have been a lot easier if CBO —which is not fair to say, but if CB...
...if CBO—which is not fair to say, but if CBO projected then what has happened now...

Jeanne Lambrew

...that did a bunch of the estimates. The Congressional Budget Office [CBO] did these two volumes on healt...
...The Congressional Budget Office [ CBO ] did these two volumes on healt...
...be budget director, who worked at the CBO , had shared passion for, What ar...
...to get the policy nailed down, the Congressional Budget Office scoring lined up and timely, so you ca...
...was happening at the time, as well as Congressional Budget Office —I think people underestimate the fac...

...had spent time with Peter Orszag at CBO , who was then at CBO. He loved th...
...Peter Orszag at CBO, who was then at CBO . He loved the idea, and so he became ...

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