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Answers to Questions for the Record following a Hearing on the Budget and Economic Outlook for 2017 to 2027 by the House Committee on the Budget 1 (March 3, 2017)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo3329 and id is 1 raw text is: MARCH 3, 2017 Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing on the Budget and Economic Outlook for 2017 to 2027 Conducted by the House Committee on the Budget On February 2, 2017, the House Committee on the Budget convened a hearing at which Keith Hall, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, testified about CBO 's report The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2017 to 2027 (www.cbo.gov/publication/52370). After the hearing, two Members ofthe Committee submitted questions for the record. This document provides CBO's answers. Congressman McClintock Question. What sort of analysis does the Congressional Budget Office regularly produce relating to appropriations bills? Answer. Section 308 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 requires, in part, that CBO assist the House and Senate Budget and Appropriations Committees in carrying out their responsibilities. As part of that assistance, CBO provides the Appropriations Committees with data and other information as they consider legislation and distributes detailed reports to interested parties in the Congress that display account-level detail of the budgetary effects of that proposed legislation. CBO also provides a separate tabulation of the changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPs) included in such legislation. Furthermore, CBO frequently presents details of the budgetary effects that would result from proposed appropriation legislation in current status reports, which reflect the latest stage of action for each appropriations subcommittee.' Current status reports are first provided when legislation is reported in the House or Senate and are updated as proposals progress through the legislative process. In addition, CBO publishes a historical tabulation of supplemental 2 appropriations.2 Question. Many appropriations bills include changes in mandatory programs (CHIMPS). Does CBO analyze the budgetary effects of these CHIMPS? 1. See, for example, Congressional Budget Office, Status of Discretionary Appropriations (accessed March 1, 2017), www.cbo.gov/publication/17129. 2. See, for example, Congressional Budget Office, Supplemental Appropriations: 2000-Present (accessed March 1, 2017), www.cbo.gov/publication/17129.

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