Congressional Budget Office Chief Named
From Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
Congressional Democrats have named economist Robert D. Reischauer, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, to head the Congressional Budget Office.
Reischauer, a former CBO official, is considered moderate and pragmatic by Democrats and Republicans. The CBO is expected to be a nonpartisan adviser, even though in this case its director was appointed by the leaders of a House and Senate that are both controlled by Democrats.
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