Congressional Budget Office

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...actually be? White House climate czar Carol Browner cites a $173 a year cost for a family of four that was calculated by the Congressional Budget Office for the House climate bill, which has the same roughly 17 percent target. That...

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The Congressional Budget Office is a serious player in the health care debate, but the people behind it are less well-known. That's by design. They prefer working anonymously, and try to avoid much of the political back and forth that often...

The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan scorekeeper of federal spending, put the first 10-year cost of the Senate healthcare bill at $849 billion and said it would reduce budget deficits by $130 billion over that period.

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...method of forcing governments to curb deficits has failed. The US has the Congressional Budget Office, an independent agency which oversees fiscal policy for the two houses of Congress. In addition, Congress has to approve any increase in the...

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...not have much impact." The public option passed by the House of Representatives on November 7 would cover 6 million people, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, slightly higher than the Senate's version. The CBO said Senate...

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...trade-offs. Carol Browner, Obama's assistant for energy and climate change, cited a $173-per-year estimated cost in a briefing Wednesday - a figure for a family of four calculated by the Congressional Budget Office. Republicans say...

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