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Influence Policy. The focus of their ire is the CBO's boss, Alice M. Rivlin, 46. When she came to the Hill as the first head of Congress's budget bureau in 1975, she had been a highly regarded working economist at that liberal Democratic enclave, the Brookings Institution. Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, personally steered her into the job. Now some of his-and her-colleagues in both parties wish her four-year term could be cut short...
...main complaint against Rivlin is that she is too publicity-conscious and sometimes goes beyond her $52,500-a-year job as staff technician and seeks to influence policy. The CBO, with its staff of 208 economists and other specialists, was set up to analyze tax and spending options in all areas, from defense to welfare, and assess costs and probable impact on the economy. As a result, Congress can now set spending ceilings and sometimes even cut appropriations to stay under them. At the same time, the legislators can keep a close watch on individual spending programs. Before, Congress...
...Rivlin started out by annoying conservatives. In one report she pointed out that President Ford's spending budget was inadequate to the needs of the economy. Lately the CBO has been digging into Carter proposals-and the reaction of Democrats has been equally pained. After assessing the President's energy plan, Rivlin announced that the Administration's estimates of what the program would accomplish were "overly optimistic." For example, the CBO found that savings on oil imports would be closer to 3.5 million bbl. daily by 1985 than the 4.5 million bbl. projected by the President. Said...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill and other Democratic congressional leaders were stung. In a stormy confrontation. Connecticut Democrat Robert Giaimo. chairman of the House Budget Committee, warned Rivlin during a committee meeting to shut up in public...
...jobs in his Administration. Those who have worked with Carter include Charles Schultze, Budget Director under Johnson, who may wind up in Carter's Cabinet; Henry Owen, onetime chief of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, who is a foreign affairs specialist for Carter; and Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, who may head up Carter's Council of Economic Advisers. Then, too, there is Robert Roosa, chairman of the Brookings board, who may be in line for Treasury Secretary (and who, like Owen, is on the Trilateral Commission...