The Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus between the years 1998 and 2000, the last three years of Clinton's presidency.

According to White House and Congressional Budget Office figures, the maximum share of income that enrollees would have to pay for the " silver " healthcare plan would vary depending on their income relative to the federal poverty level, as follows: for families with income 133 – 150 % of FPL will be 3-4 % of income, for families with income of 150 – 200 % of FPL will be 4-6. 3 % of income, for families with income 200 – 250 % of FPL will be 6. 3-8. 05 % of income, for families with income 250-300 % of FPL will be 8. 05-9. 5 % of income, for families with income from 300 to 400 % of FPL will be 9. 5 % of income.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the net effect of both laws will be a reduction in the federal deficit by $ 143 billion over the first decade.

") The Congressional Budget Office and related government agencies scored the cost of a universal health care system several times since 1991, and have uniformly predicted cost savings, probably because of the 40 % cost savings associated with universal preventative care and elimination of insurance company overhead costs.

" The ability of the earned income tax credit to deliver larger monetary benefits to poor workers than an increase in the minimum wage and at a lower cost to society was documented in a 2007 report by the Congressional Budget Office.

With respect to the estimation of spending for the executive branch, the BRD serves a purpose parallel to that of the Congressional Budget Office for the estimation of spending for Congress, the Department of the Treasury for the estimation of revenues for the executive branch, and the Joint Committee on Taxation for the estimation of revenues for Congress.

And according to the Congressional Budget Office, in 2004 the U. S. invested $ 400 billion in infrastructure capital across federal, state, and local levels including the private sectors on transportation networks, schools, highways, water systems, energy, and telecommunications services.

** Congressional Budget Office: Social Security Primer ( 2001 )

With respect to the estimation of revenues for the executive branch, Treasury serves a purpose parallel to that of the Office of Management and Budget for the estimation of spending for the executive branch, the Joint Committee on Taxation for the estimation of revenues for Congress, and the Congressional Budget Office for the estimation of spending for Congress.

The Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) has written that " future growth in spending per beneficiary for Medicare and Medicaid — the federal government ’ s major health care programs — will be the most important determinant of long-term trends in federal spending.

The Congressional Budget Office projects that Medicare per-capita spending growth will not exceed the economic target at any time between 2015 and 2021.

According to former Congressional Budget Office analyst Christopher Barnekov, such contracts allowed the rail carriers and their shippers much more opportunity readily to develop more efficient transport arrangements which lowered costs for the carriers, yielding better returns for the carriers and lower rates for the shippers.

* Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act PL 93-344 ; 1974

In 2003, a Congressional Budget Office study was conducted to forecast whether currently proposed tax cuts would increase revenues.

The Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) has estimated that extending the Bush tax cuts of 2001-2003 beyond their 2010 expiration would increase deficits by $ 1. 8 trillion dollars over the following decade.

If the parts of the budget outside of Social Security are in deficit, which the Congressional Budget Office and multiple budget expert panels assume for the foreseeable future, there are several implications:

* A battery of post-Nixon controls on executive power, including transparency rules and " watchdog bureaucracies " such as the federal Inspectors General, a strengthened Government Accountability Office, and the Congressional Budget Office

* Using Pricing to Reduce Traffic Congestion – Congressional Budget Office | US Congressional Budget Office.

A later 2004 study by the Congressional Budget Office finds 1, 138 statutory provisions " in which marital status is a factor in determining or receiving ' benefits, rights, and privileges.

The 2004 Congressional Budget Office study, working from an assumption " that about 0. 6 percent of adults would enter into same-sex marriages if they had the opportunity " ( an assumption in which they admitted " significant uncertainty ") estimated that legalizing same-sex marriage throughout the United States " would improve the budget's bottom line to a small extent: by less than $ 1 billion in each of the next 10 years ".

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In 1977 he was assigned to the Office of the Chief of Staff, Army where he served on the Congressional Activities Team, and subsequently as an Executive Assistant.

Previously in April, 1880 there had been a Congressional investigation into corruption in the Post Office Department, where profiteering rings allegedly stole millions of dollars, employing bogus mail contracts called " star routes ".

* Office of Congressional & Intergovernmental Affairs ( OCIA )

* Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs ( OLCA )

*** Office of Congressional Affairs ( OCA )

The Office provides technical and consultative services to the Commissioner, to the Board of Trustees of the Social Security Trust Funds, and its staff appears before Congressional Committees to provide expert testimony on the actuarial aspects of Social Security issues.

After the Clerk of the House receives the bill it is then assigned a legislative number, enrolled in the House Journal and printed in the Congressional Record and the Speaker of the House refers the bill to the Committee ( s ) with jurisdiction by sending the bill to the Office of the Chairman of the committee ( s ), and the Clerk of the Committee will add the bill to the Committee's calendar.

In their study of the Congressional Record and committee hearings related to the Immigration Act, Mark Snyderman and Richard J. Herrnstein reported that " the testing community did not generally view its findings as favoring restrictive immigration policies like those in the 1924 Act, and Congress took virtually no notice of intelligence testing.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported that on August 7, 2007, a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agent testified at the Holy Land Foundation trial that CAIR was " listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee ", that it had received money from the Foundation ( conflicting with Nihad Awad's Congressional testimony ), and that co-founders Awad and Omar Ahmad were " listed as individual members the Brotherhood Palestine Committee in America.

U. S. Congressional investigations of many of the reported problems resulted in the most important legislative change affecting the U. S. military organization, doctrine, career progression, and operating procedures since the end of World War II – the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 ( Pub.

Meanwhile, in 1997 Congressional Quarterly reported Senate Banking Committee Chairman Al D ’ Amato ( R-NY ) rejected Treasury Department pressure to produce a financial modernization bill because banking firms ( such as Citicorp ) were satisfied with the competitive advantages they had received from regulatory actions and were not really interested in legislative reforms.

Reflecting the process Paul Volcker had described, as financial reform legislation was considered throughout 1997 and early 1998, Congressional Quarterly reported how different interests groups blocked legislation and sought regulatory advantages.

Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, on September 14, 2001, as reported in the Congressional Record, aired his suspicions on the occasion of Negroponte's nomination to the position of UN ambassador:

Here are the election returns from the Fifth Congressional District in Brooklyn for 1920-22, as reported by William Tyler Page, the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

In mid-August, in a report on National Republican Congressional Committee planned spending, the Associated Press reported that " the GOP has not reserved advertising time to aid Rep. Chris Chocola in Indiana even though Democrats plan to spend at least $ 700, 000 to win the district.

Coincidentally ( or not ) this was the same day that the findings of a Congressional committee on the western lands, chaired by Thomas Jefferson since the previous October, were reported.

As of September 17, 2007, some news outlets reported that the Congressional committee Hoekstra had overseen had created " erroneous " and " misleading " reports about Iran's nuclear capabilities.

In 1981, the USMB reported to Congress that it lacked the clear Congressional mandate necessary to bring about national conversion.

In 1968, Congressional Quarterly reported that at its national convention " the GOP did revert to the epithet of ' Democrat ' party.

The Washington Post reported that the matter was reviewed by the Office of Congressional Ethics in August, 2009, and that the Office was " xpecting OCE notice of termination " for Engel.

the U. S. Congressional Budget Office reported that federal government spending for 2004 was projected to be $ 2. 293 trillion, or slightly less than 20 % of the GDP.

In API ’ s latest quarterly “ Lobbying Report ” submitted to the US Senate, the organization reported that it had 16 lobbyists supporting it to lobby on various Congressional activities.

In 2006 Congressional Quarterly reported, " Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has taken aim almost exclusively at GOP members of Congress.

It was reported that he had been depressed following the death of three of his Congressional aides in a 1972 car accident, and by the fact that his mentor and predecessor, Rogers Morton, was suffering from cancer.

The United States Department of State and Congressional Research Service have reported on state harassment of the Arouch.

A Congressional committee would cite the action later in a section entitled " Misuse of Findings ", concluding that the President authorized more than had been reported to Congress.