... using their ... economic assumptions -- which now appear to be out of date and overly optimistic -- the administration never puts us on a stable path," said Marc Goldwein, policy director of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...
"A drop in the bucket," added Marc Goldwein, the policy director at the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Thursday's plan - which called for fewer program cuts and terminations than President George W. Bush sought a year ago - was ...
"It's a symbol to show he's serious," said Marc Goldwein, the policy director of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He lauded Obama's efforts to implement pay-as-you-go and some other policies, but to achieve bigger savings, ...
“Projections for future years rarely come true,” said Marc Goldwein, policy director at the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “I don’t see this in the next 10 years. We just have too many challenges we have to face,” said Rep. ...
"He's going to get it from all sides," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a Washington budget watchdog group. Some of Obama's troubles are purely political. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives ...
In addition, noted the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan fiscal research group, the bill will "have a permanent impact on the deficit through higher interest payments on additional public debt." As Kenneth Thomas, a lecturer in ...
February 23, 2009
Earmarks have come under fire because of those that seem to provide what Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, calls "laugh lines," such as Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere" or North Dakota's Lawrence Welk Museum. ...
"The very fact that the White House is having a summit just before putting out a budget blueprint tells you they're serious about long-term plans," said Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which studies ...
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that most of the infrastructure money will be spent after October 2010, and transportation experts think it will need to be supplemented by private capital or more government spending. ...
February 19, 2009
Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator in the 1990s, said that no party seemed likely to win even a quarter of the Knesset's 120 seats.
"It will be a very unstable coalition, without a central, strong pillar," Levy, of the Washington-based research center the New America Foundation, ...
