The Congressional Budget Office was launched in 1975, and has become an influential, occasionally controversial official scorekeeper on taxes and spending. Below are selected moments in CBO’s history.
Read also: “The Congressional Budget Office at middle age,” by Philip Joyce, professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy.
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