Appendix
D

Primary Contributors to CBO’s Analyses of Mandates

The following Congressional Budget Office (CBO) staff members prepare the mandate statements that CBO produces for bills and other legislative proposals.

Intergovernmental Mandates
Budget Analysis Division
Leo Lex	Unit Chief, State and Local Government Cost Estimates
Elizabeth Cove	Commerce, transportation, housing, general government
Burke Doherty	Agriculture, education
Neil Hood	General science, space and technology, energy, environment, water resources
Melissa Merrell	Administration of justice, disaster relief, natural resources, Indian affairs, immigration
Lisa Ramirez-Branum	Health, human resources, income security, Social Security, training
Ernestine McNeil	Secretarial support
Private-Sector Mandates
Microeconomic Studies Division
Patrice Gordon	Unit Chief, Private-Sector Mandates
Jacob Kuipers	International affairs, transportation, telecommunications, Coast Guard, trade
MarDestinee Perez	Natural resources, consumer and occupational health and safety, Indian affairs, administration of justice
Amy Petz	Energy, environment, water resources, agriculture, Outer Continental Shelf, general science
Paige Piper/Bach	Commerce, housing credit, homeland security, intellectual property, governmental affairs, administration of justice
Health and Human Resources Division
Nabeel Alsalam	Coordinator, education, income security, labor
Stuart Hagen	Coordinator, health
David Auerbach	Health
Patrick Bernhardt	Health, income security
Colin Baker	Health
Anna Cook	Health
Noah Meyerson	Labor, income security
Keisuke Nakagawa	Health, income security
Ralph Smith	Labor, income security
National Security Division
Daniel Frisk	Coordinator, Department of Defense and veterans’ issues
Allison Percy	Defense, veterans’ health
Cynthia Cleveland	Secretarial support
Tax Analysis Division
Mark Booth	Unit Chief, Revenue Estimating
Zachary Epstein	Revenues
Office of the General Counsel
Robert Murphy	General Counsel
Mark Hadley	Deputy General Counsel

 

During 2007, the following staff members contributed to CBO’s mandate analyses: Tyler Kruzich and (formerly of CBO) Craig Cammarata, Fatimot Ladipo, Victoria Liu, Marjorie Miller, Peter Richmond, Emily Schlect, and Judith Ruud.