{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://norman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3297", "Congressman Norman Reintroduces Bill to Restore Oversight and Accountability at the CBO", "2025-11-18", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "House", "SC", "Ralph Norman", "N000190", "norman.house.gov", "norman", "https://norman.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Congressman Ralph Norman (R-SC) reintroduced the Congressional Budget Office Oversight (CBO) Act, legislation designed to restore accountability and transparency within the CBO, an agency whose cost projections are used in the legislative process.\n\n\u201cWashington is steering this country toward a $39 trillion debt cliff,\u201d said Congressman Norman. \u201cIf Congress is ever going to get serious about reining in spending, then the CBO must be subject to routine, mandatory oversight. This bill ensures that happens.\u201d\n\nUnder Republican leadership, the Budget Committee has strengthened its focus on holding the CBO accountable. The CBO Oversight Act would require the Director of the CBO to appear before both the House and Senate Budget Committees at least twice each year. Currently, these hearings are sporadic and infrequent, creating enormous gaps in Congress\u2019s ability to examine and question the projections, scoring, and underlying assumptions that guide federal spending decisions.\n\n\u201cFor years, the CBO has operated with little direct scrutiny from the very people its work guides,\u201d Norman continued. \u201cThat\u2019s unacceptable. Taxpayers deserve a system where budget estimates are transparent, where Congress can routinely ask tough questions, and where agencies know they\u2019re accountable to the public.\u201d", 1, "2026-04-07T15:46:19Z", "2026-04-07T20:18:39Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://norman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3297"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8018789812922478, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}