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CBO's Plan for Its Major Periodic Reports This Year 1 (June 13, 2013)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo11174 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE                                 Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director
U.S. Congress
Washington, DC 20515
June 13, 2013
Honorable Paul Ryan
Chairman
Committee on the Budget
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Re: CBO's Plan for Its Major Periodic Reports This Year
Dear Mr. Chairman:
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued the spring update to its 10-year
baseline projections in May this year-rather than in March, as it usually does
because the President's budget was released much later than usual, and data that
accompany that budget are useful for the preparation of our multiyear budget
projections. That change to the usual schedule will affect what reports we produce
and when we produce them during the remainder of the year.
Specifically, in the past few years, CBO has released its long-term budget
projections in June. Because those long-term projections are based on the
agency's 10-year projections, the delay in our spring update to May has pushed
the long-term projections onto a later schedule. We now expect to release this
year's long-term projections in September.
In addition, every two years, CBO prepares a report on spending and revenue
options for reducing the deficit. This year we plan to issue that report in October.
There is a more significant change involving the update to CBO's 10-year budget
and economic projections that we usually issue in August. Because CBO's spring
update to the 10-year budget projections was done so recently and because the
agency is facing many demands on its limited resources-for analyses of major
immigration legislation, for example--CBO will not issue new budget and
economic projections in August. The short time span between the issuance of the
spring update and a possible August update means that relatively little additional
information about budgetary developments would be available that might justify
changes in the projections, and as of now, we see no evidence of such
developments that would call for significant changes in our projections. In
addition, the economic data that have become available since our previous
projections do not suggest that significant changes in our economic projections

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