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Congressional Budget Office June 9, 2016 Digital Communications and Innovations at CBO Presentation at the Fourth Annual Global Network of Parliamentary Budget Officers Assembly World Bank Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Deborah Kilroe

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Congressional Budget Office

Digital Communications and Innovations at CBO

Presentation at the Fourth Annual Global Network of Parliamentary Budget Officers Assembly World Bank Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

June 9, 2016

Deborah Kilroe Associate Director for Communications

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CBO was created by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. It provides analysis of budgetary and economic issues that is objective and

  • impartial. The agency is strictly nonpartisan.

All of CBO’s official cost estimates and analytic reports are posted on its website.

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CBO does not:

  • Make policy recommendations
  • Write legislation
  • Implement programs or regulations
  • Enforce budget rules
  • Evaluate historical performance of

government programs

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CBO’s Products

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  • Baseline budget projections and economic

forecasts covering the 10-year period used in the Congressional budget process

  • Long-term budget projections
  • Cost estimates for legislation, including

analyses of federal mandates

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  • Analysis of the President’s budget

(including its likely economic effects and their budgetary feedback)

  • Scorekeeping for enacted legislation
  • Analytic reports examining specific

federal programs, aspects of the tax code, and budgetary and economic challenges

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CBO on the Web and Social Media

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CBO continually strives to make its work more accessible on its website and social media platforms.

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In recent years, CBO has established a presence on social media (SlideShare, Twitter, YouTube) and has implemented a number of significant innovations aimed at enhancing the online presentation and accessibility of the agency’s work.

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CBO has developed new pages on its website to provide users a “one-stop shop” for:

  • Major recurring reports
  • Budget and economic data
  • Baseline projections for selected programs
  • Reports with policy options
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The new pages are intended to make CBO’s work easier to find and have been well received by users.

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CBO has broken new ground with the introduction of a fully digital version of its widely used Budget Options report, which is produced periodically and examines

  • ptions for reducing budget deficits.
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Users are now able to search for options by their major budget and program categories via a dedicated online search. The online search has been expanded to also include all options in CBO’s analytic reports.

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In another first, CBO just launched a new

  • nline search tool for mandates that CBO has

identified in bills and public laws. CBO is required to assess the cost of mandates that would apply to state, local, and tribal governments, or to the private sector. The online tool will replace an annual printed report that CBO had published for nearly 20 years.

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CBO redesigned the website’s topics pages and added new pages on dynamic analysis and methods for analyzing health insurance coverage to make the agency’s work in those areas easier to find and to bolster transparency.

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CBO redesigned the pages where reports are found as part of a broader strategy to make the website easier to access with mobile devices. This enhancement has already caused users to spend more time on CBO’s website. CBO will soon be making other parts of its website easier to access using tablets and smartphones.

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CBO recently launched a feedback button

  • n its website to gather user input that will

help shape the agency’s digital strategy.

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CBO recently revamped the Press Center page to make it more robust and user friendly. CBO’s Communications Office strives to facilitate effective communication between CBO and members of the press and the public about the agency’s work.

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CBO also utilizes the CBO blog and FAQs (frequently asked questions) on its website to provide additional insight into the agency’s analyses and to highlight the agency’s updated budget and economic projections and other analyses.

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