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The Brookings Institution released a report examining the conditions in ten states concerning individual health care market stability. Mark Hall, a senior fellow with Brookings and the autho…

The House Budget Committee held its fifth and final hearing in a series examining the role of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in the legislative process. In the first panel, former CBO…

Representative Michael Burgess (R-TX), a physician and chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, talked about Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Car…

Government officials and seniors health care representatives talked about the need for a bipartisan solution to improve the financing and delivery of long-term health care. Long-term care ge…

Alice Rivlin was interviewed at The Atlantic's third annual Economy Summit. She talked about the Affordable Care Act, the federal budget, the earned income tax credit, and the U.S. trade age…

Alice Rivlin and Douglas Holtz-Eakin debated a Congressional Budget Office report finding that raising the minimum wage would cost jobs. Ms. Rivlin was in support of raising minimum wage reg…

Economic experts talked about their recommended solutions for the “fiscal cliff,” impending tax increases and budget cuts at the end of 2012 if Congress fails to reach a new budget agreement…

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Admiral Mike Mullen and other former national security officials talked about the impact of U.S. debt on national security. Among the topics they addre…

Panelists spoke about the work of the Joint Select Committee of Deficit Reduction, urging the committee to seek deficit reductions of $4 trillion or more compared to the proposed $1.5 trilli…

Budget, legislative and business analysts examine the upcoming work of the congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, created in a recently-passed debt ceiling bill. Particip…

A panel of former Congressional Budget Office directors talked about federal budget deficits and the national debt. Among the topics they addressed were efforts to raise the debt ceiling, th…

Participants spoke about the national debt, global economy, and fiscal policy. They focused on potential actions and ideas to reduce the size of the debt, either through spending reductions …

A new group called the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform released a report on the federal debt and looked at ways to change the budget process. The commission includes several former …

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget held a forum at the National Press Club on the economic and budgetary consequences of the financial bailout. The first panel discussed the bail…

The House & Senate Budget Committees held a hearing on the effects of a possible government shutdown if federal budget legislation was not passed by October 1. They heard testimony from Whit…

White House Budget Director Alice Rivlin, head of the District of Columbia Task Force, and a group of Washington, D.C. community leaders held a news briefing outside of the White House follo…

As part of a forum entitled, “Campaign '96: Environment Front and Center,” White House Budget Director, Alice Rivlin talked about the need to keep elected officials aware of all the persons …

Committee members heard testimony from the three nominees and Mr. Nader concerning their approaches to economic and monetary policy. President Clinton nominated Mr. Greenspan for a third ter…

Participants gathered to open an exhibit on the “Monumental Core Plan,” which would attempt to reemphasize memorials, federal buildings and museums as the centerpiece of the city layout.

Director Alice Rivlin testified on President Bill Clinton’s 1997 federal budget.