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Assistant Director
    Peter H. Fontaine 
Deputy Assistant Directors
    Keith J. Fontenot 
    Theresa A. Gullo 
Division Administrative Assistant
    Darren Young 
State and Local Government Cost Estimates Unit
Unit Chief
    Leo K. Lex 
Administrative Assistant
    Ernestine McNeil 
Analysts
    Elizabeth Cove (Advancement of Commerce, Housing Credit, Transportation, and General Government)
    Burke O. Doherty (Education, Social Services, Agriculture)
    Melissa Merrell (Administration of justice, homeland security, community development, disaster relief, immigration, Natural Resources)
    Lisa Ramirez-Branum (Health, Income Security, Social Security, Veterans' Affairs)
Scorekeeping Unit
    Janet F. Airis (Legislative Branch appropriations)
Administrative Assistant
    Ernestine McNeil 
Analysts
    Edward C. Blau (Authorizing and direct spending legislation)
    Joanna (Jodi) Capps (Interior, Labor, HHS, Education appropriations)
    Virginia Myers (Commerce, Justice, financial services, and general government appropriations)
    Jennifer Reynolds (Agriculture, foreign operations appropriations)
    Mark E. Sanford (Homeland security, defense appropriations)
    Esther Steinbock (Transportation, HUD, military construction, VA, energy and water appropriations)
Projections Unit
Unit Chief
    Jeffrey M. Holland 
Administrative Assistant
    Marion C. Curry 
Analysts
    Barry Blom (Baseline coordination and report writing, monthly Treasury data, federal pay)
    Kenneth R. Farris (Maintenance and enhancement of BADS system and other technical support)
    Mary M. Froehlich (Maintenance and enhancement of BADS system and other technical support)
    Amber G. Marcellino (Other interest, Civil Service Retirement, historical data, baseline coordination and report writing)
    Eric Schatten (Interest on the public debt, trust funds, baseline coordination and report writing)
    Supaphan Siris (Maintenance and enhancement of BADS system and other technical support)
    Patrice L. Watson (Database System Administrator)
Health Systems and Medicare Cost Estimates Unit
Unit Chief
    Thomas B. Bradley 
Analysts
    Stephanie Cameron (Fee-for-service components of the Medicare program)
    Mindy L. Cohen (Medicare Advantage and programs for low-income Medicare beneficiaries)
    Sarah Evans (Medicare post-acute and dialysis services, Public Health Service)
    J. Timothy Gronniger (Medicare Advantage and Medicare restructuring, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HI Trust Fund)
    Holly Harvey (Restructuring health care delivery and financing systems)
    Lori B. Housman (Medicare: Physicians' services and hospital outpatient services)
    Lara E. Robillard (Medicare and Public Health Service)
Low-Income Health Programs and Prescription Drugs Cost Estimates Unit
Unit Chief
    Kate Massey 
Analysts
    Julia M. Christensen (UMWA benefits funds, Food and Drug Administration, and prescription drug issues)
    Sean M. Dunbar (Medicaid long-term care, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program)
    Kirstin B. Nelson (Medicaid acute care, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program)
    Andrea K. Noda (Medicaid, and prescription drug issues)
    Robert W. Stewart (Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program)
Human Resources Cost Estimates Unit
Unit Chief
    Sam Papenfuss 
Analysts
    Christi Hawley Anthony (Labor, unemployment insurance, Davis-Bacon, Job Corps, AmeriCorps, National Service, National Endowments for Arts and Humanities, the Smithsonian)
    Chad M. Chirico (Housing assistance, education)
    Sheila M. Dacey (Social Security, Old-Age and Survivors' Insurance, Social Security financing, PBGC)
    Kathleen FitzGerald (Food stamps, nutrition programs, immigration)
    Justin Humphrey (Elementary and secondary education, student loans, and Pell grants)
    Deborah A. Kalcevic (Higher education programs)
    Jonathan P. Morancy (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Foster Care and Adoption Assistance, Child Support Enforcement, Children and Family Services, child care, Social Services Block Grant, and immigration)
    David Rafferty (Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs, rehabilitation services, and disability research)
    Jessica L. Sherry (Computer programming and research support for income support and education programs; low-income home energy assistance, refugee assistance, PBGC)
Defense, International Affairs, & Veterans' Affairs Cost Estimates Unit
Unit Chief
    Sarah Jennings 
Administrative Assistant
    Janice M. Johnson 
Analysts
    John Chin (International development and security, international financial institutions)
    Kent R. Christensen (Defense projections and scorekeeping)
    Sunita C. D'Monte (Conduct of foreign affairs, information/exchange activities, veterans' health care, international development and security, international financial institutions)
    Raymond J. Hall (Navy ships and missiles, defense space programs, missile defense, atomic energy defense activities)
    David B. Newman (Air Force aircraft, forces and operations; other services' aircraft, military construction, military family housing, veterans' housing, base closures)
    Dawn Sauter Regan (Military personnel and compensation)
    Matthew Schmit (Military retirement and health care)
    Jason Wheelock (DoD operations and maintenance, Army procurement, defense infrastructure, homeland security, and chemical weapons)
    Camille Woodland (Veterans' Readjustment Benefits and Reservists' Education Benefits)
    Dwayne Wright (Veterans' compensation, pensions, and other income security programs)
Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit
Unit Chief
    Kim P. Cawley 
Administrative Assistant
    Rae Wiseman 
Analysts
    Leigh S. Angres (Administration of justice, Indian affairs, science, space, and technology)
    Megan E. Carroll (Land management, air transportation, energy, rural electrification)
    Mark T. Grabowicz (Administration of justice, homeland security, Postal Service)
    Kathleen Gramp (FCC spectrum auctions, energy, deposit insurance, Outer Continental Shelf receipts, TVA)
    Gregory H. Hitz (Agriculture)
    Daniel S. Hoople (Community and regional development, FEMA)
    Dave Hull (Agriculture)
    Tyler J. Kruzich (Water resources, land management)
    James A. Langley (Agriculture)
    Susanne S. Mehlman (Rural housing, Federal Housing Administration, other mortgage insurance, GNMA, environmental protection)
    Matthew Pickford (General government)
    Sarah Puro (Ground transportation)
    Deborah S. Reis (Recreational resources, water transportation, legislative branch, land management, Coast Guard)
    Susan Willie (Commerce programs, universal service, SEC, FTC, FCC)
 

Budget Analysis Division

Telephone: (202) 226-2800
Fax: (202) 226-1366

The Budget Analysis Division is responsible for preparing the bill cost estimates and spending projections called for in the Budget Act, including multiyear baseline projections for the total federal budget and the state and local mandate statements required under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act. The division also analyzes the President's spending proposals, leads the agency's efforts in preparing the annual report on the President's budget and the Monthly Budget Review, and produces the report on unauthorized appropriations and expiring authorizations each year. The Congress relies on CBO's cost estimates of legislation and budget projections to prepare its annual budget plan, evaluate the President's budgetary proposals, and keep track of more than $2 trillion in yearly spending.

The division's estimates of costs for federal spending programs come from four units: defense, international affairs, and veterans' affairs; human resources; health; and natural and physical resources. A fifth unit estimates the costs of mandates imposed on state, local, and tribal governments. Other units in the division make budget projections, compile estimates for annual appropriation bills, maintain the budget scorekeeping system, and support the division's computer systems.
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Assistant Director for Budget Analysis

Photograph of Peter Fontaine Peter H. Fontaine came to CBO in 1985. He served as an analyst in and then Chief of the Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit until 1999 and as Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis from 1999 to 2007. Before coming to CBO, he worked for two Washington-area consulting firms, specializing in energy and economic analyses.