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Letter to the Honorable John Kline 1 (September 2009)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo8754 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20515 September 9, 2009 Honorable John Kline Senior Republican Member Committee on Education and Labor U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Congressman: On July 24, 2009, the Congressional Budget Office transmitted a cost estimate for H.R. 3221, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, as ordered reported by the Committee on Education and Labor on July 21, 2009. For budget scoring under H. Con. Res. 85, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2010, CBO estimated the cost of H.R. 3221 consistent with the assumptions underlying its March baseline. Relative to the March baseline, CBO estimates that the provisions in H.R. 3221 related to the Federal Pell Grant Program would increase direct spending by $39.4 billion and discretionary spending by $6.3 billion over the 2010-2019 period. In your letter of August 28, 2009, you requested that CBO provide an estimate of the impact of those provisions on direct and discretionary spending relative to CBO's August baseline, which was released on August 25, 2009. That estimate is provided below. However, the August baseline is not used for Congressional scorekeeping purposes because the Congressional budget resolution is enforced using estimates consistent with the baseline that underlies that resolution. As a result, CBO's July 24 estimate remains the basis for Congressional budget enforcement procedures. Changes to the Pell Grant Program in H.R. 3221 H.R. 3221 would increase federal spending by making the following changes to the Federal Pell Grant Program:

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