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The bill increases oversight and transparency by giving budget committees more direct access to CBO leadership, at the cost of imposing time demands on CBO leadership and staff that may modestly reduce resources available for producing cost estimates.
House and Senate Budget Committees — and by extension state and local governments relying on federal estimates — gain regular, direct access to CBO leadership for oversight and clarification of budget and cost estimates, improving transparency and the ability to resolve questions about CBO analyses.
The CBO Director and CBO staff must prepare for and appear at up to four hearings per year, which will consume staff time and could divert resources away from producing timely, high-quality cost and budget estimates.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the CBO Director to testify up to twice per year before each Budget Committee when requested, including review of recent-year baseline projections and estimates.
Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to appear for up to two hearings per calendar year before the House Budget Committee and up to two hearings per calendar year before the Senate Budget Committee when requested by each committee chair; the hearings must occur by the end of the calendar year and may cover any matters the committees choose, including review of the accuracy of the CBO's most recent fiscal-year baseline projections and estimates. Also establishes a short title for the Act and makes a clerical table-of-contents insertion.
Introduced November 18, 2025 by Ralph Norman · Last progress November 18, 2025