Peter Orszag, who heads the Office of Management and Budget
We are told nothing in life is free, (except the useless advice given to us by our editors). With this in mind, we at USDemocrazy regularly set out to find websites that have real value.
With all the talk of billions of dollars being spent by the government… we wanted to find out how something of real value (our money) is being spent.
We located some important folks in Washington who help watch and manage the money madness. Here is what we found:
U.S. National Debt Clock is a site which calculates present government expenditures continually.
The Office of Management and Budget is a federal agency under the President tasked with evaluating the costs of proposed legislation.
The Congressional Budget Office is a resource utilized by Congress for approximating the costs of existing programs, as well as those incurred under bills before the Senate or House of Representatives.
Within either house of Congress there are legislative committees tasked with not only determining costs, but finding ways to finance expenditures. These are the United States House Committee of Appropriations and the United States Senate Committee on the Budget.
