Roll Call

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said she believes the failures of the deficit deal help to move along the debate. “I think each one of these things in the political arena right now actually brings us closer ...

As a 501(c)(4) social welfare group, the coalition is more free to engage in advocacy than some like-minded allies, including the nonprofit Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, that have been pushing the super committee to "go big" and find even ...

She previously worked on Wall Street and at the Brookings Institution and came to the CRFB, which is affiliated with the New America Foundation, in 2003. Since then, she has steadily built a reputation as a readily available contact for Members on ...

“Going big” has the backing of 100 House Members and 44 Senators of both parties, plus a host of deficit hawk groups such as the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. And there's a recent example where “going big” instead of wrangling over the ...

... In the 10 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, there has been no shortage of books exploring the effect the events had on our lives. There are books about the effect on our laws, politics and culture, but which ones best explore the post-9/11 world? For an answer, we asked five experts: Richard K. Betts, Columbia University political science professor and director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies; Michael Doyle, Columbia Law School foreign and security policy professor; Patrick Doherty, deputy director of the New America Foundation’s national security studies program; ...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said the gang of six plan is important because it eliminates the alternative minimum tax. The AMT is not indexed for inflation and is typically patched each year by Congress ...

And Walker has had bipartisan allies in groups such as the Concord Coalition, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the Heritage Foundation. Members of President Barack Obama's debt commission, especially Co-Chairmen Alan Simpson and ...

... Council on Foreign Relations fellow Peter Beinart and Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne — had proclaimed the end of the culture wars and a return to ...

President Barack Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the court will kick off the usual bloodletting across the partisan divide. At 50 years of age, Kagan would be the youngest justice and, since justices are appointed for life, she easily could serve for three decades.

The progressive consumption tax was first proposed in 2004 by Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, ...