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Ellen Seidman, a special assistant for economic policy in the Clinton White House who also held senior positions at the Treasury Department and Fannie Mae, questions whether Obama will get the economic bounce he needs to declare victory, ...

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 failed health overhaul efforts in the early 1990s, said by spotlighting health ...

... impact on the trend in health care costs, provided that capacity is not increased,” said the study’s authors, John E. Wennberg and Shannon Brownlee. ...

“His record in Chicago is a strong one,” said Sara Mead, director of the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation. ...

Walker already had been working with the Concord Coalition, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and others to make the general public more aware ...

BLITZER: And they’ve also been accused of having links, Peter Bergen, to al Qaeda itself. And there have been suggestions over the years. ...

“Islam will defeat al Qaeda, we won’t,” said Peter Bergen, a scholar with the New America Foundation and noted writer on al Qaeda.

Don’t believe him? Consider, Bergen says, al Qaeda’s strategic errors: the bombings in Indonesia in 2002 and 2005, which killed about 222 and wounded 338; the bombings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2003, which killed about 35 and wounded more than 160; the hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, in 2005, which killed about 60 and wounded 115; and, of course, Sept. 11, which killed nearly 3,000.… more

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) said McCain’s tax and spending proposals, which include extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts (PL 107-16, PL 108-27), would cost between $524 billion and $563 billion by 2013.

McCain, the Republican presidential nominee and an Arizona senator, has proposed paying for his policies by reducing spending and growing the economy, but the group said he has been light on specifics about spending cuts. What he has outlined would still leave a deficit of between $200 billion to $300 billion by… more

“In the 21st century, the threats we face are at least as dangerous and in some ways more complex than those we’ve confronted in the past,” said Susan Rice, Obama’s top foreign policy adviser, in a speech at the New America Foundation on Aug. 15, “By definition they require cooperative solutions . . . while working with our allies and coming together in effective partnerships...”

...Already Obama initiatives have advanced the national security debate by giving policy experts the cover they need to advance those… more

...Jacob Hacker, a political scientist at the University of California Berkeley and author of “The Great Risk Shift,” said Democratic leaders have been frustrated by several factors since taking the majority of the House and Senate after the 2006 elections: comparatively thin majorities, especially in the Senate; their insistence on adhering to pay-as-you-go budget rules that often require tax increases to support any substantial new spending; and the fact that relief bills such as the housing measure are limited in scope and largely throw money at a problem,… more