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The Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the product of a Democratic president and a Republican Congress, also deserves credit, said says Marc Goldwein, policy director for the New America Foundation's Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

... conversation about fiscal reform, the last thing we need is demagoguing attacks against people who have put forward serious policy proposals," said Jason Peuquet, a policy analyst with the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

Jason Peuquet, a policy analyst with the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, told us Obama's deficit reduction plan from April incorporated many of the broad principles of the commission's recommendations, but was mostly devoid of ...

Jason Peuquet of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan budget-hawk group, said Neumann's numbers didn't provide a very useful road map to thinking about solutions. "We do need to start thinking about bringing spending and ...

That's exactly what the New America Foundation document said, but it's not exactly what Whitehouse said on the Senate floor: that Pell grants "now" cover 34 percent of those costs. So why the slight discrepancy? Whitehouse's spokesman said the senator ...

Finally, we spoke with the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget to see what they thought of the Buffett rule. Policy analyst Jason Peuquet said that a Buffett rule, combined with other aggressive tax increases on the wealthy, ...

But Jason Peuquet, a policy analyst with the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, pointed to four similar cases, going back to 1985, where a debt ceiling increase was tied to spending cuts or related budget enforcement procedures. ...

In a November 2009 poll gauging Obama's popularity among Israelis, commissioned by the US-based New America Foundation, 41 percent of 1000 respondents had a favorable view of Obama while 37 percent had an unfavorable view, according to a Dec. ...

... policy paper from the centrist Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget that a small credit-rating agency based in Pennsylvania, Egan-Jones, downgraded the United States in mid-July. A couple of weeks later, "S&P followed suit, becoming the first ...

"I imagine it will happen sometime in early FY2012," Jason Peuquet, a policy analyst at the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, told us. So Portman was off but "pretty darn close, given the information we have," Peuquet said. ...