Congressional Budget Office
Eric J. Labs is a Senior Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office since May 1995, where Eric J. provides objective analysis on naval forces and weapons-related issues to Congress. Prior to that, Eric J. was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland College Park and a Research Assistant at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. Eric J. holds a Ph.D. in Political Science with a focus on Security Studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in Political Science, History, and Classics from Tufts University.
Congressional Budget Office
Since its founding in 1974, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has produced independent analyses of budgetary and economic issues to support the Congressional budget process. The agency is strictly nonpartisan and conducts objective, impartial analysis, which is evident in each of the dozens of reports and hundreds of cost estimates that itseconomists and policy analysts produce each year. All CBO employees are appointed solely on the basis of professional competence, without regard to political affiliation. CBO does not make policy recommendations, and each report and cost estimate discloses the agency’s assumptions and methodologies. All of CBO’s products apart from informal cost estimates for legislation being developed privately by Members of Congress or their staffs are available to the Congress and the public on CBO’s website.