And there's an understanding even among self-described “budget scolds” such as Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget ...
“He showed his willingness to compromise and keep and open mind,” said Len Nichols, director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation. ...
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“He had to negotiate in a very hostile environment,” recalls Len Nichols, who as an economist at the Urban Institute advised Kennedy in that period. ...
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Even as the Afghanistan emergency intensifies, however, support for an open-ended commitment to “the Good War,” as author Peter Bergen calls it, ...
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Back in 1991, Steve Coll, a future Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting from Pakistan, encountered Daniel Boyd, his wife and his brother in Peshawar. ...
“Health reform is going to be hard to do if you don't go after that money,” said Len Nichols, director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, and a senior adviser in the Clinton administration during its ...
“Mudd, a careful, thoughtful CIA analyst and the deputy chief of the Agency's Counterterrorist Center, wrote the terrorism portion of Powell's speech,” CNN terrorism analyst and author Peter Bergen writes in a forthcoming book. ...
“Daschle's implosion ... forced somebody to take up the mantle and make it happen,” said Len Nichols, director of the centrist New America Foundation's health policy program. With the House largely staying silent on the issue, the field was clear for ...
There's no plan B.” Len Nichols, health policy director at the centrist New America Foundation, is not as pessimistic; legislation is still in its early stages of development, and he sees indications that Congress may yet take on costs. ...
Ellen Seidman, special assistant on economic policy for former President Bill Clinton, said that while Obama's efforts are innovative and likely to help, the administration might still need to cope with political fallout from small business failures. ...