WASHINGTON - Congressional budget crunchers Thursday said the Democrats' latest health care plan would hold down federal red ink for at least a 20-year stretch, an assessment that boosted the bill's ...
Manuel Balce Ceneta/The Associated Press Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., with Sens. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, left, and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., leaves a news conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
U.S. defense spending in coming years must rise roughly 6 percent on average from the record sum sought by President Barack Obama this year just to meet current plans, Congress's budget office said Wednesday.
Debate on the Senate healthcare reform plan will likely begin on Saturday, and much of it will center around money and people. How much, and how many. And those answers are hard to determine… It’s a big billl…and the official cost of the Senate healthcare reform package introduced this week is $848-billion over 10 years. But that is a figure from the Congressional Budget Office that is issued ...
A number of outlets are reporting that the bill that Harry Reid will take to the Senate floor has gotten a pretty favorable "score" from the Congressional Budget Office
The Washington Post reports: "Democratic leaders were jubilant that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office determined that the Senate bill would cut federal deficits by $130 billion over the next decade.
Congressional budget experts say the new Senate health care bill would make a government health plan widely available. The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that about two-thirds of the U.S. population would have a public plan available in their state, even though the Democrats' 10-year, $848-billion bill would allow states to opt out.
Both sides of the health care debate in Washington are waiting to hear what Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, has to say.
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