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The Brookings Institution held an event on finding common ground on challenges facing working families. Members of the first panel discussed the Convergence Collaborative’s January 2024 repo…

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-partisan policy analysis group, hosted a series of discussions on the federal budget process. The event coincided with the release of th…

Panelists discussed the health care law’s successes and failures as the Republican-led Congress prepared to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Panelists, including state-level experts an…

House Budget Committee Chair Tom Price (R-GA) outlined a proposal to make improvements to the federal budget process which includes prohibiting the approval of continuing budget resolutions.…

House Budget Committee Chair Tom Price (R-GA) talked about the federal budget process at an event hosted by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He said the process is failing and…

The Brookings Institution hosted a panel discussion on budget priorities, fiscal challenges, and economic proposals from President Obama’s State of the Union address, followed by a conversat…

Reports were presemted giving an overview of the progress in implementing the Affordable Care Act in southern states. and then state reports were presented for seven of the states: Alabama, …

Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) introduced proposed policy reforms to reduce poverty in the U.S. Following his speech, Representative Ryan and others participated in a panel discussion on th…

Stuart Butler talked about Virginia during the War of 1812, and how the state’s militia organized and defended Virginia against British attack. He highlighted various assaults along the Virg…

Various panelists discussed economic opportunity in the United States at the 2011 Opportunity Nation Summit. Opportunity Nation is a group of businesses, schools, and nonprofits that promote…

Conservative leaders and Republican presidential candidates spoke at the Values Voter Summit. During this portion of the summit, House Speaker John Boehner pledged to uphold the Defense of M…

Officials from six Washington, D.C. think tanks talk about their plans for reducing the budget deficit and national debt. Peter Peterson made closing remarks.

This was the second in a series of roundtable hearings intended to bring health care policy and industry experts together to inform the development of comprehensive health care reform legisl…

At the Concord Coalition’s Fiscal Wake-Up Tour dinner, delegates presented the principles and proposed fiscal reforms they had developed during the Youth Entitlement Summit (YES). Isabel Saw…

Health and public policy experts held a roundtable forum on proposals for universal health care and possible ways to improve access to adequate health care for all Americans. They spoke abou…

The Heritage Foundation held a panel discussion on “The American Experiment: What the 2005 Index of Dependency Tells Us About Its Prospects.” Members of the panel discussed the balance bet…

In an open session Secretary Leavitt, a former governor of Utah, talked about the federal-state partnership and the problems with Medicaid costs. Mr. Aaron and Mr. Butler also talked about h…

The Brookings Institute and New America Foundation and other Public Policy institutions hosted a forum on Fiscal Policy. Senator John McCain R-Arizona and Senator Joe Lieberman D-Connecticut…

The fifth of the Harvard Forums on Health focused on how to deal with the rising cost of health care. Mr. Thorpe gave the keynote address. Among the questions addressed was whether the risin…

A panel of leading policy experts Discussing the possibility of a stronger Bipartisan consensus in the new Congress and Administration.