page_title: Congressional Budget Office
section_title: Director
hierarchical_section_title: Congressional Budget Office / Director
caption_attribution_description: English: Ford House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 Obtained from http://www.aoc.gov/cc/cobs/index.cfm on August 15, 2006.
context_page_description: The Congressional Budget Office is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government that provides budget and economic information to Congress.
  Inspired by California's Legislative Analyst's Office that manages the state budget in a strictly nonpartisan fashion, the CBO was created as a nonpartisan agency by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
  Whereas politicians on both sides of the aisle have criticized the CBO when its estimates have been politically inconvenient, economists and other academics overwhelmingly reject that the CBO is partisan or that it fails to produce credible forecasts. There is a consensus among economists that "the CBO has historically issued credible forecasts of the effects of both Democratic and Republican legislative proposals."
context_section_description: The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate jointly appoint the CBO Director after considering recommendations from the two budget committees. The term of office is four years, with no limit on the number of terms a director may serve. Either house of Congress, however, may remove the director by resolution. At the expiration of a term of office, the person serving as Director may continue in the position until his or her successor is appointed. The list of directors of the CBO are:
caption: Ford House Office Building, headquarters for the CBO
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