Addressing deficit: Difficult but necessary
The Hill
May 3, 2010
"The commission also is far from the only force applying pressure on officials to bring the deficit under control. The Bipartisan Policy Center (disclosure: I’m a visiting scholar at the BPC), for example, has a Debt Reduction Task Force. Co-chaired by former Clinton Office of Management and Budget Director Alice Rivlin (she’s also a member of Obama’s commission) and former Sen. Pete Domenici, its recommendations – due out later this year – could provide a substantive alternative to Obama’s more ideologically fraught presidential commission. And last week the Peter G. Peterson Foundation hosted a high-level debt-reduction confab that featured former President Bill Clinton, among others, making an urgent case for fast action to tamp down deficit spending."
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