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handle is hein.congrec/cbowip0001 and id is 1 raw text is: O CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE Phillip L. Swagel, Director U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20515 June 5, 2019 Honorable Mike Enzi Chairman Committee on the Budget United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Re: CBO's Work in Progress Dear Mr. Chairman: I welcome the opportunity to work with you as I begin my term as Director of the Congressional Budget Office. I am committed to ensuring that CBO is responsive and transparent as we provide the Congress with timely, thorough, and nonpartisan analyses to support the budget process. I am writing to provide information about CBO's work in progress-and to indicate that the agency will be providing new quarterly updates about work in progress. To give a sense of the breadth of capabilities involved in CBO's work, I have also included some information about the agency's staff. Work in Progress CBO's work in progress as of the beginning of this month included 51 cost estimates and 21 analytic reports for which the fact that the agency is working on them is public. (For a list, see Attachment A.) Cost Estimates. Most of CBO's cost estimates for public proposals are prepared after authorizing committees order legislation to be reported before it is considered by the full House or Senate, as required by the Congressional Budget Act. That CBO is working on such estimates is public knowledge. Other estimates prepared for public proposals, usually at the request of committee leadership, include those for some bills passed by a full chamber and for bills posted on committees' websites prior to their markups. When completed, these cost estimates are posted on the CBO website. The agency makes estimates related to other public proposals-such as many bills on the suspension calendar-available to interested Members of Congress and their staff. More generally, if a legislative proposal is public, then CBO can discuss whether the agency is working on estimating its cost. www.cbo.gov

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