Great Caesar's Ghost! According to the Journal’s Jenny Strasburg Republican staffers on three Senate committees are pressing a congressional office that scrutinizes federal budget issues and proposed legislation over how its assessments are compiled.
The inquiries of the Congressional Budget Office, which haven't been made public, concern the CBO's analyses of some of Washington's most complex and controversial measures, including bills on financial regulation, health care, small-business lending and efforts to aid the housing market, said people familiar with the matter.
At the heart of the story is former CBO economist Lan T. Pham, who says she was fired for sharing her pessimistic outlook for banking and housing sectors in 2010….
Read all about it at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577197201992946704.html
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