Restoring Fiscal Sanity—While We Still Can

with

Will Marshall

President, Progressive Policy Institute

The Honorable Bill Frenzel

Co-Chair, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Guest Scholar Brookings Institution; and Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

The Honorable John McCain

(R-AZ), United States Senator

The Honorable Joseph Lieberman

(D-CT), United States Senator

Bob Bixby

Executive Director, The Concord Coalition

Charles Kolb

President, Committee for Economic Development

Stuart Butler

Vice President, Domestic and Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation

Maya MacGuineas

Executive Director, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Director, Fiscal Policy Program, New America Foundation

Alice Rivlin

Senior Fellow and Director, Greater Washington Research Program, Brookings Institution

Bob Greenstein

Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

William Niskanen

Chairman, Cato Institute

Paul Weinstein

Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Progressive Policy Institute

Gene Steuerle

Senior Fellow, Urban Institute

Deficits are back, the debt is rising, and the coming election is the last before the baby boom generation begins to retire. Tough policy choices will be needed to get the country back on track, yet politicians continue to postpone making them. This policy forum-hosted by nine different organizations with varying perspectives-will explore and debate a number of possible options to help address these fiscal challenges before it is too late.

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Co-Chairmen

William Frenzel
Leon Panetta

President

Maya MacGuineas

Directors

Barry Anderson
Roy Ash
Thomas L. Ashley
Charles Bowsher
Dan L. Crippen
Cal Dooley
Willis D. Gradison, Jr.
William H. Gray, III
Ted Halstead
James R. Jones
James T. Lynn
Lou Kerr
James T. Mclntyre Jr.
David Minge
Marne Obernauer, Jr.
June O'Neill
Rudolph G. Penner
Timothy Penny
Peter G. Peterson
Robert Reischauer
Alice Rivlin
James C. Slattery
Charlie Stenholm
David Stockman
Paul A. Volcker
Carol Cox Wait
Joseph R. Wright, Jr.

Senior Advisors

Henry Bellmon
Elmer Staats
Robert S. Strauss