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1 Answers to Questions for the Record following a Hearing about Transparency at CBO Conducted by the Senate Committee on the Budget 1 (September 28, 2018)

handle is hein.congrec/cboanwqrh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: , , SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing About Transparency at CBO Conducted by the Senate Committee on the Budget On September 13, 2018, the Senate Committee on the Budget convened a hearing at which Keith Hall, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, testified about an update on transparency at CBO.1 After the hearing, Chairman Enzi and Senator Crapo submitted questions for the record. This document provides CBO's answers. It is available at www.cbo.gov/pubication/54499. Chairman Enzi Question. In recent years, CBO's report on spending with expired or expiring authorizations has been released before final appropriations were enacted for the year. This spring I asked for an updated version of the report that reflects enactment of the fiscal year 2018 omnibus appropriations bill. Can you describe the findings of this report, which was released in July, and whether or not this represents a comprehensive look at all unauthorized spending? What programs have appeared on the list the longest? How much unauthorized spending is assumed in your most recent 10-year spending outlook? Answer. As you requested, CBO published Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations: Fiscal Year 2018, Revised, to update the annual report the agency publishes each year in January.2 The revised report takes into account funding that was provided for fiscal year 2018 in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115-141), on March 23, 2018 (after this year's report was published). Scope of the Report. As required by section 202(e) (3) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the revised report identifies two types of programs and activities: Programs and activities funded for the current fiscal year for which authorizations of appropriations have expired, and All programs and activities for which the authorizations of appropriations will expire during the current fiscal year. CBO maintains a catalog of certain expired and expiring authorizations of appropriations. That catalog is limited to nonpermanent explicit authorizations of appropriations. CBO does 1. See testimony of Keith Hall, Director, Congressional Budget Office, before the Senate Committee on the Budget, Transparency at CBO: An Update (September 13, 2018), www.cbo.gov/publication/54445. 2. See Congressional Budget Office, Expired and Expiring Authorizations ofAppropriations: Fiscal Year 2018, Revised (July 2018), www.cbo.gov/publication/54126.

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