... sweetener ahead of the savings," said Maya macguineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan budget watchdog group. ...
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Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, in an interview said "the time is now" for lawmakers to tackle issue. ...
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Media advocacy groups like Public Knowledge, the New America Foundation and Media Alliance share CTIA's concerns. In a letter sent Tuesday to Hutchison and ...
July 15, 2009
"Most anybody who's being honest knows we've reached a point where we've got a very dangerous fiscal situation, and it won't fix itself," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She said the White House and Congress should negotiate a broad plan to reduce deficits now.
Karen Bass is an unlikely tax cutter. She's the Democratic speaker
of the California State Assembly, a fierce defender of the labor
movement, and an advocate for repealing a constitutional provision that
requires that tax increases pass the state legislature with a
two-thirds majority.
Ellen Seidman, who was Office of Thrift Supervision director from 1997 through 2001, supports the new consumer agency but argued the banking regulators should retain the primary responsibility for protecting consumers. She argues Congress should ...
The groups' pledge to drive down cost growth is "very good news," said Len Nichols, a health economist and director of the health-policy program at the New America Foundation, a research group in Washington. He said the only thing comparable to the new ...
Len Nichols, a health economist who heads the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, argued that a public insurance option is needed to provide coverage for those who are looking for another choice after a bad experience with private ...
The real achievement of Mr. Obama's first 100 days, say former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda and others, has been the ability to project humility -- an American trait Mr. Castañeda says was in short supply over the past eight years. ...
Len Nichols, director of the health-policy program at the New America Foundation, said the extent to which employee plans are taxed, and who is affected by those new taxes, will ultimately be driven by how much revenue is needed to pay for the broader ...
