They’ve stuffed the legislation with gimmicks and dodges designed to get a good score from the Congressional Budget Office but don’t genuinely control runaway spending.
法案充斥着花招伎俩与敷衍了事,而这样设计的目的只在于从国会预算办公室捞一把,但并不想真心实意地控制如野马脱缰般飞涨的开支。
An analysis of the Ryan plan by the Congressional Budget Office makes the point (see charts).
美国国会预算办公室(CBO)对瑞恩计划的分析切中了要害(见图表)。
The deficit would be 4.3% in 2015 and the debt 90% in 2020 under Mr Obama’s most recent budget, the Congressional Budget Office reckons.
按照奥巴马现行的得到众院预算委员会通过的预算,到2015年,赤字将是4.5%,负债到2020年将达90%。
The US federal budget deficit will hit an all-time high of $1.2 trillion in the 2009 fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Wednesday.
美国国会预算局7日预测,2009财年的政府财政预算赤字将达到1.2万亿美元,创下新的历史最高纪录。
A few months ago, the Congressional Budget Office released a report on the impact of various tax options.
几个月以前,议会预算办公室发布了一份报告,讨论不同税法带来的影响。
He is a former consultant to the U.S. Treasury Department, the Congressional Budget Office and the International Monetary Fund.
Makin曾作为顾问任职于美国财政部,议会预算办公室及国际货币基金。
After expanding by 1.3% a year in the 1990s, it grew by just 1% from 2000 to 2010, and the Congressional Budget Office predicts that over the next decade it will grow by only 0.7%.
在上世纪九十年代以每年1.3%的速度增长以后,劳动力在2000至2010年间的年增长率仅为1%,国会预算办公室估计在未来十年中劳动力年增长率只有0.7%。
A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office reckons that it created 2m-4.8m more full-time-equivalent jobs in the second quarter than would have existed without it.
一份来自国会预算办公室最近的报告称,在第二季度,同没有经济刺激计划相比,多产生200-480万相当于全职的工作。
In fact the Congressional Budget Office estimates that by 2030 the value of a voucher would cover only a third of the cost of a private insurance policy equivalent to Medicare as we know it.
事实上,国会预算办公室预计,到2030年,一张代金券的价值只相当与我们所知的「医保」等价的私营保险单费的三分之一。