CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
Bills and resolutions
Budget: eliminate automatic increases for inflation from CBO baseline projections for discretionary appropriations and require budget estimates to be compared with the prior year’s level (see S. 185), S400 [30JA]
——— increase long-term fiscal accountability of direct spending legislation (see H.R. 2518), H4078 [26JN]
——— require the President to submit with the budget an estimate of the deficit using generally accepted accounting principles and CBO to submit the same with its report (see H.R. 476), H341 [4FE]
Congress: require long-term cost benefit analyses of introduced bills (see H.R. 381), H279 [23JA]
Congressional Budget Act: amend relative to the scoring of preventive health savings (see S. 1422), S6206 [1AU] (see H.R. 2663), H4482 [11JY]
Economy: define a value for the dollar to stimulate the economy and provide for a sound U.S. dollar and remove authority of Federal Reserve banks to pay earnings on certain balances (see H.R. 1576), H2065 [16AP]
——— provide a macroeconomic analysis of the impact of legislation (see S. 184), S400 [30JA] (see H.R. 1874), H2532 [8MY]
——— provide for fiscal gap and generational accounting analysis in the legislative process, the President’s budget, and annual long-term fiscal outlook reports (see S. 1351), S5907 [24JY] (see H.R. 2967), H5344 [1AU]
Government regulations: create a division to perform regulatory analysis (see S. 1472), S6208 [1AU]
House Rules: require poverty impact statements for certain legislation (see H.R. 201), H52 [4JA]
Legislative branch of the Government: making appropriations (see S. 1283), S5667 [11JY] (see H.R. 2792), H4978 [23JY]
Cost Estimates
Full Faith and Credit Act (H.R. 807), H2545 [9MY]
National Pediatric Research Network Act (H.R. 225), H324 [4FE]
No Subsidies Without Verification Act (H.R. 2775), H5525 [12SE]
Letters
Budget authority estimates: Douglas W. Elmendorf, CBO, H5505 [11SE]
Fairness for American Families Act, H4558 [17JY]
Means-tested direct spending and nonmeans-tested direct spending programs, H1323 [7MR]
Remarks in Senate
‘‘Budget and Economic Outlook—Fiscal Years 2013–2023’’ report: release, S678–S680 [13FE]
Chained consumer price index (CPI): use to calculate the cost-of-living adjustments in benefits for Social Security, disabilities, and veterans, S2241, S2286, S2287 [22MR], S7415 [11OC]
Committees of the Senate: committee allocations and budget aggregates, S1706 [12MR]
Congressional Budget Act: amend relative to the scoring of preventive health savings (S. 1422), S6215 [1AU]
Immigration: release of economic impact report on S. 744, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S4568, S4571–S4574, S4620 [18JN], S4632, S4656, S4658 [19JN], S4764, S4766, S4783–S4786 [20JN], S4993 [24JN], S5207–S5209, S5213 [26JN], S5345 [27JN]
Taxation: provide Committee on Taxation (Joint) macroeconomic analysis of tax reform legislation, S2318 [22MR]
‘‘Updated Budget Projections—Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023’’ report: release, S3496, S3499 [15MY], S3643 [21MY]
Reports
Long-Term Budget Outlook—Consequences of Large and Growing Federal Debt: (Excerpt), S7258 [7OC]
Reports filed
Legislative Branch of the Government Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (House) (H.R. 2792) (H. Rept. 113–173), H4978 [23JY]
——— Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (S. 1283) (S. Rept. 113–70), S5667 [11JY]
Pro-Growth Budgeting Act: Committee on the Budget (House) (H.R. 1874) (H. Rept. 113–161), H4825 [19JY]
Statements
International Child Support Recovery Improvement Act, H3703 [18JN]
Tables
CBO baseline for Dept. of Agriculture Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, H3852 [19JN]
Dept. of Agriculture Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program budget authority other than benefits and nutrition assistance for Puerto Rico and American Samoa, H3853 [19JN]
Mandatory outlays in CBO’s baseline (2013–2023), H1324, H1325 [7MR]