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1 Answers to Questions for the Record following a Hearing on CBO's Appropriation Request for Fiscal Year 2019 Conducted by the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, House Committee on Appropriations 1 (May 11, 2018)

handle is hein.congrec/cboawqlap0001 and id is 1 raw text is: MAY 11, 2018 Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing on CBO's Appropriation Request for Fiscal Year 2019 Conducted by the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, House Committee on Appropriations On April 18, 2018, the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch of the House Committee on Appropriations convened a hearing at which Keith Hall, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, testified about CBO's appropriation request for fiscal year 2019.' After the hearing, Chairman Yoder submitted questions for the record. This document provides CBO's answers. It is available at www.cbo.gov/publication/53831. Question. You mentioned in your written testimony that last year CBO completed 740 formal cost estimates, the highest number in a decade with the average completion time of 25 calendar days. Do you believe last year was an anomaly due to the healthcare reform debate or do you see this many becoming the new norm? Answer. The unusually high number of formal cost estimates that CBO completed in fiscal year 2017 was not driven by legislation affecting health care. CBO does not expect to produce that many in the future. For example, in fiscal year 2019, CBO expects to complete about 650 formal cost estimates, which is the recent average. In 2017, less than 10 percent of the estimates that CBO prepared were for health-related bills. Legislative requests associated with proposed changes to the health care system contrib- ute significantly to CBO's workload, but the volume of that work is best considered in terms of the complexity of the analysis that is required and the variation in preliminary drafts that CBO receives, rather than the number of formal cost estimates. The number of formal cost estimates that CBO prepares is driven by the number of bills that all authorizing committees mark up and report for consideration on the floor of each cham- ber. In 2017, about a quarter of those estimates were for bills from three committees: the House Committee on Natural Resources (80), the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (67), and the House Committee on Financial Services (48). Question. In your budget request you advocate for the inclusion of an administrative provision providing CBO with relocation reimbursement authority. If provided, how much do you envision CBO spending on this each year? Answer. Though the amount needed from year to year would vary with CBO's hiring needs, the agency anticipates spending less than $100,000 per year. 1. See testimony of Keith Hall, Director, Congressional Budget Office, before the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch of the House Committee on Appropriations, CBO's Appropriation Request for Fiscal Year 2019 (April 18, 2018), www.cbo.gov/publication/53708.

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