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... interest on the Treasury's debt obligations could cause severe disruptions in financial markets and the payments system," he said in remarks prepared for delivery at an event sponsored by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget think tank. ...

The council's ideas are helpful but not nearly enough, said Sherle Schwenninger, director of economic growth and American strategy of the nonpartisan New America Foundation. "I generally view the jobs council as operating within the current serious ...

According to an analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a bipartisan group of budget experts, the two sides could easily find hundreds of billions dollars more in savings. But the Biden group could have a hard time reaching its goal ...

"I fear that the new economic jitters and the data will give those who don't want to move forward on fiscal reforms another excuse not to," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Government data showing a ...

Those incentives lead to better preventive care, [Phillip] Longman, of the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, said. For example, people in the VHA system all have a primary care doctor, as well as a nurse, social worker, and clerk assigned to them, ...

Energy extraction is placing increasing pressure on the nation's water supply, according to a new report by the nonprofit New America Foundation. The report, "The Water-Energy Nexus," explains how traditional and alternative energy technologies are ...

Analysts at the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimate that savings to the US budget deficit of between $25 billion and $130 billion could be achieved over 10 years by increasing the costs to people in the Medicare healthcare ...

Budget expert Maya MacGuineas said Norquist's pledge only deals with one side of the equation. “It's just so elegant in its simplicity,” said MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation, ...

But Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation in Washington isn't so sure Obama will pay a political price for his comments about Middle East borders, even in the 2012 re-election campaign just ahead. "There is this perception that there is a huge ...

"I haven't heard anything about imminent threats," said Peter Bergen, a counter-terrorism expert at the New American Foundation who once interviewed bin Laden. If there were information about a pending threat, Bergen said, US authorities would probably ...