[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
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                        TRIBUTE TO GLEN GOODNOW

  Mr. SASSER. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to one of the 
original staff members of the Congressional Budget Office, Glen S. 
Goodnow, a principal analyst in the scorekeeping unit of the Budget 
Analysis Division. Mr. Goodnow will retire later this year, after 23 
years of Government service, most of which has been with CBO.
  Glen Goodnow began his public career in 1971 as an adjudicator with 
the General Accounting Office. From 1973 to 1975 he was a staff 
assistant for the Joint Committee on Reduction of Federal Expenditures. 
With passage of the Congressional Budget Act 20 years ago, the duties 
and personnel of the Joint Committee were transferred to the 
Congressional Budget Office. When CBO began its operations early in 
1975 with the appointment of Alice Rivlin as its first Director, Mr. 
Goodnow and the four other members of the Joint Committee staff became 
the Office's first employees and the nucleus of the Budget Analysis 
Division.
  A primary duty of the Joint Committee staff was to keep track of 
congressional budgetary decisions in relation to the President's 
proposals. With the establishment of the Budget Committees and new 
procedures for acting on the annual budget, the focus of scorekeeping 
shifted to the congressional budget resolutions. 
Scorekeeping sounds like a relatively easy task, but it is 
in fact quite complicated and often very controversial. The Budget 
Committees look to CBO to provide the necessary technical judgments and 
numerical estimates that go into scorekeeping decisions.
  One of the reasons why the Congress has been able to stay within the 
guidelines set forth by the budget resolutions is that we can rely on 
CBO to produce scorekeeping reports which tell us where we stand on all 
the spending and revenue legislation that is considered each year. Glen 
and his colleagues in the CBO scorekeeping unit over the years have 
provided invaluable assistance to the Budget Committees in monitoring 
the congressional budget process.
  Glen Goodnow's expertise centers on direct spending measures, 
sometimes referred to as ``backdoor spending,'' as well as the 
authorization process. He has been responsible for producing the 
``early warning'' reports alerting congressional staff to provisions 
that might have direct spending impact and a current status report on 
all paygo legislation. Glen is one of the few people I know who reads 
the Congressional Record from cover to cover each day. He has patiently 
helped new CBO budget analysts and committee staff through the maze of 
scorekeeping rules and precedents. Glen has been a stalwart member of 
the CBO staff and he will be sorely missed.
  Mr. President, the appreciation we feel for the work of the 
Congressional Budget Office is due in no small part to the 
conscientious efforts of people like Glen Goodnow. I wish him well in 
his retirement. He deserves the gratitude of us all.
  Thank you Mr. President, I yield the floor.

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