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MY VIEW: Gene Steuerle February 2013
Yesterday, Urban Institute Fellow and CRFB Board Member Gene Steuerle tied the ability of federal and state governments to control health care costs...
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MY VIEW: Alan Simpson February 2013
Responding to a U.S. News and World Report "Debate Club" question on the new framework from former Fiscal Commission co-chairs Alan Simpson and...
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MY VIEW: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson February 2013
In an op-ed in today's Politico, former Fiscal Commission co-chairs and CRFB board members Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson argue that there is a...
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MY VIEW: David Walker February 2013
Former U.S. comptroller general and CRFB board member David Walker writes in a Poltico op-ed about the need for lawmakers to focus on reaching a...
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Op-Ed: No Budget, No Pay - No Deal, No Break
Politico | February 5, 2013 Believe it or not, Democrats and Republicans sometimes come together and do something positive in Washington, and that has...
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MY VIEW: Judd Gregg February 2013
Former Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) comments on the partisanship in Washington, an issue that so far has been holding back attempts to reach a deal that...
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MY VIEW: Rudy Penner February 2013
In a Tax Policy Center blog, Urban Institute fellow and former CBO director Rudy Penner makes the case for going beyond the amount of deficit...
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MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas & Thomas Rippon
Today in an op-ed in The Patriot News, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas and Pennsylvania Fix the Debt Co-chair Thomas Rippon call for bipartisan...
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MY VIEW: Gene Steuerle January 2013
Urban Institute Fellow and CRFB board member Gene Steuerle suggests that the greatest challenge for today's lawmakers is not action, but realizing...
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MY VIEW: Jim Kolbe January 2013
Yesterday, CRFB board member and former Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) illustrated in The Arizona Republic that only a package that includes substantial...
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MY VIEW: Alice Rivlin December 2012
Former CBO Director and CRFB Board Member cautioned political leaders in a op-ed in The Hill, that merely finding just enough savings to repeal the...
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MY VIEW: Michael Peterson
Michael Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, writes in Politico that much of the coverage on the fiscal cliff has missed...