The Congressional Budget Office : honest numbers, power, and policymaking / / Philip G. Joyce

• Autore: Joyce Philip G. <1956->
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 336.73
• Soggetto topico: Budget - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Truth, power and consequences -- Creating and sustaining CBO organizing for nonpartisan analysis -- CBO and macrobudgeting -- CBO and microbudgeting -- CBO and policy analysis -- The Clinton health plan : a case study in bringing it all together -- The Obama health care reform -- The Congressional Budget Office : an excellent skunk?.
• Sommario/riassunto: Created in 1974, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become one of the most influential forces in national policymaking. A critical component of our system of checks and balances, the CBO has given Congress the analytical capacity to challenge the president on budget issues while it protects the public interest, providing honest numbers about Congress's own budget proposals. The book discusses the CBO's role in larger budget policy and the more narrow ""scoring"" of individual legislation, such as its role in the 2009--2010 Obama health care reform. It also describes how the firs
• Titolo autorizzato: The Congressional Budget Office
• ISBN: 1-58901-758-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815220603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American governance and public policy.