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Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing on CBO's 2016 Appropriation Request Conducted by the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, Senate Committee on Appropriations 1 (April 8, 2015)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo2124 and id is 1 raw text is: APRIL 8, 2015 Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing on the Congressional Budget Office's 2016 Appropriation Request Conducted by the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, Senate Committee on Appropriations On March 10, 2015, the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch of the Senate Committee on Appropriations convened a hearing at which Douglas W Elmendorf then Director of the Congressional Budget Office, testified about CBO' appropriation requestfor fiscal year 2016.' Chairman Capito submitted questions for the record. This documentprovides the agencys answers. Question. I understand that the FY 2016 budget request includes funding for three additional full-time equivalents (FTE's). Knowing that the salaries and benefits associated with FTE's continue to increase over time, would upgraded, or additional, information technology systems be a more cost-efficient means of increasing CBO's output, rather than hiring new people? Answer. In CBO's view, hiring the additional people would provide the greatest value to the Congress. The additional employees would be devoted to analyzing the economic effects of federal tax and spending policies (including dynamic effects, as required by a new House rule) and health care issues. Certain needs for information technology were addressed yCBO's 2014 appropriation: The agency acquired greater storage capacity and advanced servers designed for sophisticated statistical analysis and modeling undertaken by an increasingly wide swath of the agency. At this time, to analyze the ever-changing proposals considered by the Congress, CBO's most pressing need is for talented analysts who can determine the modeling approaches that are appropriate for a particular proposal, can develop new models or understand and manipulate existing models, can translate legislative language into a set of parameters for use in modeling, and can make other adjustments for features of the legislative language that are not amenable to standard modeling. 1. See the testimony of Douglas W. cmendorf, Director, Congressional Budget Office, before the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, CBO's Appropriation Request for Fiscal Year 2016 (March 10, 2015), www.cbo.gov/publication/50002.

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