Press Releases

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition today congratulated members of the bipartisan majority of President Obama’s fiscal commission for giving their approval to a credible and comprehensive plan that could dramatically reduce future federal deficits. (more…)

WASHINGTON – The Concord Coalition today praised the plan released by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairs of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, and called on other members of the panel to give it their full…

WASHINGTON — The Concord Coalition will present U.S. Senator Kent Conrad (D – North Dakota) with the Paul E. Tsongas Economic Patriot Award at The Concord Coalition’s Seventeenth Annual Economic Patriots Dinner. The Dinner will be held on Tuesday, November…

WASHINGTON – The Concord Coalition said today that the deficit reduction framework released by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, bipartisan co-chairs of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, is a very promising start to the difficult decision-making…

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Bill Novelli, and Isabel Sawhill Will Join in Tour Visits to Half a Dozen Cities Across the Country this Fall (more…)

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition today called new federal budget projections an alarming reminder of the need for Washington to set better priorities and resist the temptation to dig the government into even deeper trouble with more deficit-financed spending and…

WASHINGTON — With the official April 15 deadline for a finished budget resolution having passed without even a mark-up in the House or Senate, The Concord Coalition today strongly urged Congress not to abandon its responsibility to pass a budget resolution.…

WASHINGTON – U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, former U.S. Comptroller General David M. (more…)