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Participants talked about tax reform proposals, the state of the economy, and the potential impact of various tax collection methods on workers and the overall economy. Following their remar…

The Brookings Institute convened a panel on which, participants talked about President George W. Bush’s fiscal policies as he entered his second term. They addressed issues such as tax polic…

At a panel forum at the Brookings Institution’s Tax Policy Center panelists talked about tax policy, fiscal policy, President Bush’s economic stimulus plan, and how these issues might be deb…

A bipartisan task force of freshman members of Congress heard from former members, campaign finance experts and public interest group representatives. Representatives Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) a…

Current and former congressional and executive budgetary officials, business leaders and others gathered to discuss the role of accounting and scoring in the federal budget process. They exa…

Panelists talked about congressional reform, including committee reform, changes in the rules of the House and Senate, debate and relationship civility, the nature of power and leadership an…

Panelists spoke about various issues relevant to U.S. politics in the long term and the 1996 elections, including the debates and public disinterest. They also took questions from the audie…

Administration officials, members of Congress and other dignitaries paid tribute to Henry Bellman and Robert Giamo, the founders of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget who were ap…

The participants talked on formulating the federal budget, tax and Social Security policy and on other topics as well. They took questions from the audience afterwards.

Current news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes a…

Participants spoke about the budget debate between Congress and President Clinton over the thirteen appropriations bills that must be passed for the federal government to continue normal op…

House and Senate budget committee members, former members of Congress, White House analysts and other scholars discussed the effectiveness of the various congressional budget acts, and how t…

William Frenzel of the Brookings Institution and Kevin Kearns of the U.S. Business and Industrial Council debated merits of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Uruguay rou…

In a panel discussion, participants examined alternatives to the federal income tax. The primary option was to replace the current income tax with a consumption-based tax. They answered audi…