About the bill
Should one of Congress’s most important offices be subject to more public disclosure?
Context
Since 1975, the Congressional Budget Office has served as the nonpartisan research and analysis body for the legislative branch.
Whenever a bill is introduced, from the Republican tax cuts to Democrats’ health care plans, the CBO determines how much it’s likely to cost and its impact on deficits.
But while the results of their work are always public, their methodologies are not always so.
What the bill does
The CBO Show Your Work Act would require the CBO to publicly release on its website “each fiscal model, policy model, and data preparation routine… in estimating the costs and other fiscal, social, or economic effects of legislation.”
It was introduced on January 30 as bill ...
Sponsor and status
116th Congress (2019–2021)
Introduced on Jan 30, 2019
This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on January 30, 2019. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.
Position statements
History
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Aug 3, 2017
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Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, S. 1746 (115th). |
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Jan 30, 2019
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Introduced
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S. 278 is a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number S. 278. This is the one from the 116th Congress.
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