Alice Rivlin, a member of two prominent fiscal commissions, called for renewed bipartisan cooperation on comprehensive budget reform in the most recent in a series of forums around the country co-sponsored by The Concord Coalition and the Campaign to Fix…
In his State of the Union Address President Obama declared: “Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.” It was good applause line, but it glossed over a key point: The…
With the automatic spending cuts required by the Budget Control Act (BCA) scheduled to begin taking effect next week, both parties have continued to make partisan speeches while making no apparent progress on a potential compromise. The BCA required total…
David M. Cote, chairman and CEO of Honeywell, warned at a New Hampshire forum on the federal debt Monday that the nation’s current fiscal policies would harm future generations of Americans.“All we’re doing is setting up this big debt problem…
