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- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on December 11, 2013
- Data and Technical Information
To help CBO achieve correctness and consistency in the writing for its reports and cost estimates, the agency produces a guide to style and word usage. The current update is the fourth such guide in the agency’s history.
- Report
A carbon tax or cap-and-trade program could make emission-intensive U.S. products less competitive and increase emissions overseas. Import tariffs related to emissions could reduce those effects but would be hard to implement.
- Working Paper
Under a broad-based carbon tax or cap-and-trade program, some of the reduction in U.S. emissions would probably be offset by increases in foreign emissions, a phenomenon known as carbon leakage.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on November 19, 2013
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resource on December 4, 2013
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on November 21, 2013
- Report
In 2012, the federal government spent $531 billion on investment—for physical capital; research and development; and education and training—which represented 15 percent of federal spending and 3 percent of GDP.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on June 26, 2013
- Report
Spending on the Social Security program will exceed its dedicated tax revenues, on average, by about 12 percent over the next decade, CBO projects. The gap will grow larger in the 2020s and will exceed 30 percent of revenues by 2030.