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Maya MacGuineas, president, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: "While the president has proposed a number of sensible policies, all worthy of consideration, his plan does not address the drivers of our debt since it offers no solutions for ...

... and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wound down in short order. "These projections bank on a lot of savings not yet in place, and even then, the debt is too high," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

"Maybe it's the wake-up call we need," says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "This may be that push that's necessary to turn the super committee into something that's really super." David Walker, former US ...

Brian Fishman, counterterrorism research fellow at the New America Foundation, said Norway's prime minister set a good tone following the attacks. "The way we should respond to terror is by rallying around the values being attacked rather than ...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, hailed it as a "bold" plan that feeds a "pent-up appetite" for deficit reduction among moderates in both parties. Former US comptroller general David Walker praised it while ...

"People are working in different ways," says David Gray, director of the Workforce and Family Program at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. "I do a lot of work in the evenings," says Gray, the father of four under age 5, ...

US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives the keynote address during The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's annual conference, June 14, 2011 in Washington, DC, where he called on lawmakers to raise the debt ceiling in a timely way or ...

That theme emerged from the annual conference of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget on Tuesday, particularly from Obama's allies. Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, ...

Michael Lind, policy director at the liberal New America Foundation's economic growth program, says there is no near-term crisis for federal retirement programs and that economic growth will make these programs more affordable. ...

... Some submitted multiple comments. And, as the Higher Ed Watch blog noted, many form letters weren't filled in. "I am a career college student at [INSTITUTION] studying [PROGRAM]. [INSTITUTION] is providing me with the education and training necessary to obtain the job I`ve always wanted as a [CAREER]," said one of four similar letters submitted by Farnaz Hamedanchian, a design student at Berkeley College in New Jersey. ...

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