Restoring Fiscal Sanity -- While We Still Can

Deficits are back, the debt is rising, and the coming election is the last before the baby boom generation begins to retire. Tough policy choices will be needed to get the country back on track, yet politicians continue to postpone making them. This policy forum -- hosted by nine different organizations with varying perspectives -- explored and debated a number of possible options to help address these fiscal challenges before it is too late.

Sponsored By:
Brookings Institution
New America Foundation
Progressive Policy Institute
Urban Institute
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Concord Coalition
Committee on Economic Development
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Heritage Foundation

Participants

• Will Marshall
  President, Progressive Policy Institute


• Bill Frenzel
  Co-Chair, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget


• John McCain
  (R-AZ), United States Senator


• Joseph Lieberman
  (D-CT), United States Senator


• Bob Bixby
  Executive Director, The Concord Coalition


• Charles Kolb
  President, Committee for Economic Development


• Stuart Butler
  Vice President, Domestic and Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation


• Maya MacGuineas
  President


• Alice Rivlin
  Senior Fellow and Director, Greater Washington Research Program, Brookings Institution


• Bob Greenstein
  Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities


• William Niskanen
  Chairman, Cato Institute


• Paul Weinstein
  Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute


• Gene Steuerle
  Senior Fellow, Urban Institute