Let’s Decipher the ABCs of CBA, GRH and BEA

• By Stan Collender
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• July 7, 2009, Midnight

You don’t have to try very hard these days to get those involved in the federal budget process to talk about how it should be changed. Over the past few weeks there have been hearings and conferences devoted to that subject. Task forces and working groups have been studying ideas, developing their plans and drafting reports. And now that the president has proposed a new version of the sometimes admired but often maligned pay-as-you-go concept, it once again is being both highly recommended and heavily criticized.