... more than 182 members of Congress support a three-day waiting period on health care legislation so that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) can estimate its cost and so that Congress and the American public can read the final legislation. With ...

... of withdrawing funds. Does that concern you? The Obama plan will, by the calculations of the independent Congressional Budget Office, increase the deficit by $3 trillion. That averages out to $8,125.00 per person. Now, that is too expensive ...

... to actually provide coverage to those who are without health insurance. - Advertisement - According to the Congressional Budget Office, of the 45 million Americans who are without coverage today, 37 million would still be without health insurance ...

... change our priorities," Lincoln said last week in a conference call with Arkansas reporters. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a statement dated June 19 estimated the current House bill would cost roughly $22 billion. While ...

... hole.' The individual and employer coverage requirements would raise about $192 billion over 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office said. Even before the bill was unveiled, the House Ways and Means Committee announced it would vote on the ...

... Thursday, giving weight to critics who say the legislation could break the bank. The sobering assessment from Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf came as House Democrats pushed to pass a partisan bill through committees, while ...

... their criticism. The president's remarks were released late Friday, a few hours before an update by the Congressional Budget Office said the overall cost of the House bill would "result in a net increase in the federal budget deficit of ...

... seniors, because they, with Medicare, couldn't figure out exactly what was in it for them. So now the Congressional Budget Office has scared Democrats by assigning a $1.6 trillion cost estimate to proposed reforms. So now Democrats are ...

... pare back a planned 10-year series of rate increases for doctors serving Medicare patients. Aides said the Congressional Budget Office had estimated that the elements under consideration would extend coverage to 97 percent of the population ...

... disagreed vigorously on the impact on consumers. Democrats pointed to two reports one from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the other from the Environmental Protection Agency that suggested average increases would be limited after ...