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Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing by the Senate Committee on the Budget on the Work of the Congressional Budget Office 1 (June 16, 2015)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo2392 and id is 1 raw text is: JUNE 16, 2015 Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing by the Senate Committee on the Budget on the Work of the Congressional Budget Office On May 19, 2015, the Senate Committee on the Budget convened a hearing at which Keith Hall, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, testified about CBO's work. After that hearing, Chairman Enzi and other Members of the Committee submitted questions for the record, and this document gives CBO's answers. Chairman Enzi Question. CBO's FY 2016 budget submission to the appropriations committees earlier this year asked for authorizing provisions in the legislative branch appropriations bill. CBO requested permission to hire employees with non-immigrant visas for difficult-to-fill positions, and to keep half of unused appropriations in FY16 for use in FY17. What are the budgetary effects of those provisions? Why did CBO seek these provisions through the appropriations process rather than with changes in the office's authorizing statute, through the Budget Committee? Is there a list of administrative provisions that have been adopted in appropriations bills that affect how the agency conducts its operations? If so, please share that with the Senate and House Budget Committees. If not, please prepare such a list and submit it to the Senate and House Budget Committee. Answer. In fiscal year 2012 and every year since, CBO has asked the Committees on Appropriations for the authority to hire foreign nationals who have special skills and hold nonimmigrant visas for positions that are difficult to fill. This provision would not significantly affect the budget. CBO had the authority to hire employees with nonimmigrant visas until the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (Public Law 111-117), changed a long-standing governmentwide provision regarding the use of appropriated funds. Before the change, appropriated funds could be used to employ nationals of those countries allied with the United States in a current defense effort.' Dozens of such countries exist, and before the change, CBO employed a few of these foreign nationals. The current language allows appropriated funds to be used only for U.S. citizens or those lawfully admitted for permanent residence and [are] seeking citizenship.2 1. See, for example, sec. 704 of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2009, which is division D of the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, P.L. 111-08, 123 Stat. 524, 681. 2. See, for example, sec. 704 of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2010, which is division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010, P.L. 111-117, 123 Stat. 3034, 3205 (2009).

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