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Begich questions
Congressional Budget Office
Director Doug Elmendorf
during a full committee
hearing on Capitol Hill on
Nov. 15, 2011. Elmendorf
presented the committee
with the CBO’s fiscal and
legislative policy options
for increasing economic
growth and employment,
including increased aid to
the unemployed, tax credits
to lower and middle income
households and reducing
employees’ payroll taxes.