Keith Hall starts as director of CBO

Keith Hall starts Wednesday as director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). 

Hall, who has served under both Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, succeeds Douglas Elmendorf, whose last day was Tuesday. 

Republicans on the House and Senate Budget Committees announced in late February that they selected Hall to be the next budget scorekeeper.

{mosads}Hall most recently served as chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission. Before that, he was a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center.

Under Bush, he served as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and continued in that role under Obama. He also worked as Bush’s chief economist at the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist at the Commerce Department.

After November’s midterm elections, Republicans began to raise the idea of replacing Elmendorf once they took control of Congress. 

Elmendorf served as CBO director since early 2009. Hall’s term expires Jan. 3, 2019.