"The House and the Senate are singing from the same songbook," said Reid Cramer, a financial services expert at the New America Foundation, a moderate to ...
"Chavez once again shot his mouth off," said Jorge Castaneda, a former Mexican foreign minister and respected writer on the Latin American left. ...
"What you're seeing is people offering substantive changes," said Elizabeth Carpenter, the associate policy director at the liberal New America Foundation's ...
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... budget process is broken, and this is another one," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a watchdog group. ...
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"The middle class absolutely is the constituency that will determine" the outcome of the health care debate this year, said Len Nichols, director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank. "It will come down to Obama's portrayal of the benefits of the new world" of change versus the status quo of rising premiums and the difficulties of getting individual insurance...
"It's politics as usual in Washington," said Marc Goldwein, the policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan budget watchdog group. Few members of Congress objected to the spending surge. One dissenting Senate voice ...
Marc Goldwein, the policy director for the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, estimates that Obama's health care policies would cost more than the White House figured -- he estimated $150 billion a year. ...
The groups Terror Free Tomorrow and the New America Foundation conducted the telephone poll of 1001 voters. There also are good reasons to be suspicious, however. Things seemed to go well on election day, when Iranians by the millions -- a record ...
June 17, 2009
Maya Macguineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, cautions Congress against creating a new entitlement program when the government is struggling with the cost of Medicare, the federal program for the elderly, ...
The problem in Israel, said former Israeli adviser Daniel Levy, is that the nation's voters are still largely driven by fear, whereas Obama's election was a direct rejection of the politics of fear. In the upcoming election, voters are facing a choice ...