Congressional Budget Office - Obama Presidency Oral History Congressional Budget Office Index / Organizations Transcript Andrew Stern ...something through that we can make the CBO [Congressional Budget Office] cos... ...through that we can make the CBO [ Congressional Budget Office ] cost numbers work. So it was just... ...was making cuts in ways that Peter at CBO would score in the best way possible... ...score in the best way possible. The CBO person was—to try to make sure th... ...something through that we can make the CBO [Congressional Budget Office] cos... ...through that we can make the CBO [ Congressional Budget Office ] cost numbers work. So it was just... ...was making cuts in ways that Peter at CBO would score in the best way possible... ...score in the best way possible. The CBO person was—to try to make sure th... Show more... 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... Show more... Elizabeth Fowler ...detail and somebody looks at it, and Congressional Budget Office [CBO] or somebody who's skilled i... ...it, and Congressional Budget Office [ CBO ] or somebody who's skilled in figurin... ...November of 2009, and that is the Congressional Budget Office and economic forecasting aroun... ...around healthcare reform. The CBO said that the Senate Finance Committe... ...with the lack of precision, I think CBO agreed or at least has stated in thei... ...are highly speculative models, but CBO —their word is what Congress goes by... ...the assumption in the estimation by the Congressional Budget Office . So you didn't need to move the ta... Show more... 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... 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... Show more... Zeke Emanuel ...The economists weighed in with the Congressional Budget Office assessing that all the money to pay fo... Nancy-Ann DeParle ...despite the large savings that CBO [Congressional Budget Office] scored... ...despite the large savings that CBO [ Congressional Budget Office ] scored. In the full Senate, th... 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 ... Show more... Related Topics go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy Atlantic Relations Coming soon Latin America Coming soon Counterterrorism Coming soon