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1 Jing Guo, CBO's Recent Publications and Work in Progress as of September 30, 2025 1 (October 10, 2025)

handle is hein.congrec/cborcent0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional Budget Office Nonportison Analysi'sfor the U£S Congress C BO's Re centPbiain adWork inPors sof Sepembr 3 0, 2025 Ocoer22 To provide the Congress with a comprehensive review of its work, the Congressional Budget Office publishes quarterly reports that highlight the agency's recent publications and summanize its work in progress.' Over the past three months, CBO has produced a variety of budget and economic analyses, fulfilling the agency's core mission of supporting the Congress during each stage of the legislative process. The agency's work takes many forms, including technical assistance to committees and Members when they are crafting legislation, cost estimates of legislation, testimonies, reports, and other analytical products. Recent Cost Estimates Through its technical assistance and cost estimates, CBO routinely provides the Congress with information about the effects of proposed legislation on the federal budget. The agency is required by law to prepare a cost estimate for nearly every bill that is approved by a full Congressional committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate. The agency publishes cost estimates at other stages of the legislative process, too, if requested to do so by a relevant committee or by Congressional leadership. CBO also estimates the budgetary effects of bills scheduled to be considered under suspension of the rules in the House, a procedure sometimes used to consider legislation on the House floor in an expedited manner.2 This past quarter, the agency published 228 cost estimates. In addition to preparing estimates for the 2025 reconciliation act (Public Law 119-21) relative to CBO's January 2025 baseline and to the budget enforcement baseline for consideration in the Senate, CBO provided technical assistance and estimates of budgetary effects at each stage of the legislative process for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026. CBO published a cost estimate for House and Senate versions of the bill and reviewed 2,809 amendments. Of those, 704 amendments were reviewed when the bill was being considered by the House Armed Services Committee, 1,296 (submitted by 326 House Members) were reviewed before the bill was considered on the House floor, and 809 (submitted by 93 Senators) were reviewed before consideration on the Senate floor. 1. For previous editions of this report, see www.cbo.gov/taxonomy/term/3/recurring-reports. To receive the Quarter in Review newsletter that accompanies each report in this series, readers can submit their email address under Stay Connected at the bottom of any page on CBO's website. 2. In addition, the agency prepares cost estimates when a bill is the subject of a motion to be placed on the Consensus Calendar-an alternative route to the floor for certain House bills and resolutions that have broad bipartisan support.