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Archives: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Events

Primary Numbers: The GOP Candidates and the National Debt

Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 9:30am

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After the Super Committee: Is Budget Process Reform Part of the Answer?

Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 1:00pm

At this Dec. 13 event, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform hosted a policy briefing to discuss four new papers on budget process reform.

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The Debt Ceiling, Fiscal Plans, and Market Jitters

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 2:30pm

On June 14, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget held its 2011 Annual Conference and Dinner on Capitol Hill. This year’s roundtable conference, entitled “The Debt Ceiling, Fiscal Plans, and Market Jitters: Where Do We Go from Here?” featured a keynote address from chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, and a roundtable with 40 of the nation’s leading fiscal and economic experts.

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The Human Side of the Fiscal Crisis

Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 8:30am

On March 10, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted a terrific event entitled America at a Crossroad: The Human Side of the Fiscal Crisis. The event was made possible by the MacArthur Foundation. The event goes into two reasonably likely but different scenarios. In Scenario One, we risk "Fiscal Gridlock", in which our policymakers do not change our current fiscal path.

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Moment of Truth Project Launch

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 2:00pm

Please join us for the launch of the Moment of Truth Project – an effort co-chaired by Erskine Bowles and Senator Alan Simpson that seeks to build on the momentum and prospect for bipartisan compromise created by their work as co-chairs of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

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Getting Specific: How to Fix the Budget

Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 9:00am

On Thursday, September 30, 2010, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget convened a policy forum, “Getting Specific: How to Fix the Budget.” The event brought together policymakers and a wide array of the nation’s foremost fiscal experts to discuss how we can get specific in fixing the federal budget. Also at the event, CRFB released two policy papers for a new series entitled Let’s Get Specific, offering a plan to reform Social Security and another to help further control rising health care costs.

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Red Ink Rising

Monday, December 14, 2009 - 10:00am

On December 14, the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform hosted a public event, moderated by David Wessel of the Wall Street Journal, to announce the release of its report, Red Ink Rising: A Call to Action to Stem the Mounting Federal Debt. The six panelists included a distinguished group of fiscal experts, including among their many titles, former chairmen and ranking members of the House Budget Committee (Bill Frenzel, Jim Nussle, and Jim Jones) and two former CBO directors (Alice Rivlin and Douglas Holtz-Eakin). The panelists

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Will Health Care Reform Heal the Federal Budget?

Friday, November 6, 2009 - 9:30am

On November 6, US Budget Watch, a joint project of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and The Pew Charitable Trusts, hosted an event on the current health care reform debate, called "Will Health Care Reform Heal the Federal Budget?" The event focused on the fiscal implications of reform, specifically looking at costs, offsets, and the extent to which health care reform can "bend the cost curve." New Health Dialogue twittered the entire event, a fi

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Beyond PAYGO

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 8:45am

On September 17, 2009 the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform hosted its first public event--Beyond PAYGO. Five panelists discussed recent proposals to gain control over mandatory spending and put the budget on a sustainable path. (See the webcast of the event below.)

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Towards Bipartisan Tax Policy

Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 9:30am

Four politically diverse tax experts will release their new paper, "Towards Bipartisan Tax Policy" at a forum hosted by the New America Foundation, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, American University's Center for Public Finance Research, the Concord Coaltion, and the Tax Foundation, on Thursday, February 12, 2009.

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