[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 81 (Monday, May 15, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E434]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        RECOGNIZING AND HONORING THE RETIREMENT OF THERESA GULLO

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                        HON. JODEY C. ARRINGTON

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, May 15, 2023

  Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise, along with Ranking Member Boyle, 
to recognize and honor Theresa Gullo on her retirement after 38 years 
of service to the Congress and the nation at the Congressional Budget 
Office.
  Through her leadership, hard work, and analytical skill, Teri's 
enormous contributions to CBO have greatly benefitted the Congress and 
the American people. After starting her career as a CBO intern and then 
completing her graduate degree, Teri joined the agency in 1985 as an 
analyst in the Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit of 
the Budget Analysis Division. Ten years later, she was the founding 
chief of CBO's State and Local Government Cost Estimates Unit, which 
she built up from scratch and led in the formulation of the principles 
and procedures that today underlie CBO's analyses of public- and 
private-sector legislative mandates. She subsequently was promoted to 
Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis and, in 2015, became the 
Director of CBO's Budget Analysis Division, a position in which she has 
supervised the work of one-third of CBO's staff.
  In that capacity, Teri has played a key role--often seven days a 
week--in facilitating CBO's response to the challenges posed by major 
reconciliation legislation, the coronavirus pandemic, and rapidly 
evolving legislative developments. She has overseen the careful 
preparation of thousands of cost estimates for legislation considered 
by the Congress and the fulfillment of several thousand requests each 
year for technical information to help committees craft legislation. 
She has led CBO's development of multiyear projections of federal 
spending and its annual analyses of the President's budget request and 
she has coordinated CBO's scorekeeping activities for legislation 
considered by appropriations and authorizing committees. Teri also has 
played a crucial role in enhancing Congressional understanding of CBO 
and its work. She has worked tirelessly to identify the most effective 
ways for the agency to provide and clearly explain timely analysis to 
the Congress.
  All of those accomplishments point to Teri's deep commitment to 
providing high-quality, objective, nonpartisan information to support 
the work of the Congress.
  Teri also has used her considerable skills to help many others 
develop professionally. She has mentored numerous public servants who 
have become leaders at CBO, in federal and state agencies, and in the 
private sector. Within CBO she is respected as a manager who is honest, 
collaborative, compassionate, and curious. Her colleagues understand 
her willingness to carefully consider diverse viewpoints and opinions, 
so that even when a decision is different from the one they might have 
preferred, members of her staff always have felt heard and valued. Teri 
has demonstrated how to embrace change and to view new challenges as 
opportunities to accomplish goals in new ways.
  Teri's achievements have been recognized by many, including the 
American Association for Budget and Program Analysis and the National 
Academy of Public Administration. The people she has guided and 
mentored throughout her career serve as her lasting legacy to CBO and 
the broader federal budget community.
  We thank Teri for her dedicated and skillful work for the American 
people and wish her well in retirement.

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