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Consumer Groups Love Dodd's Proposed Financial Regulation | McClatchy Washington Bureau

"The House and the Senate are singing from the same songbook," said Reid Cramer, a financial services expert at the New America Foundation, a moderate to ...
Reid Cramer | November 12, 2009

How Chavez May Have Spoiled Ousted Honduran Leader's Return | McClatchy Washington Bureau

"Chavez once again shot his mouth off," said Jorge Castaneda, a former Mexican foreign minister and respected writer on the Latin American left. ...
Jorge Castañeda | September 30, 2009

Baucus Unveils Health Plan, Draws Fire from All Sides | McClatchy Washington Bureau

"What you're seeing is people offering substantive changes," said Elizabeth Carpenter, the associate policy director at the liberal New America Foundation's ... and more »
Elizabeth Carpenter | September 16, 2009

As Usual, Congress Is Way Behind on Budget Bills | McClatchy Washington Bureau

... budget process is broken, and this is another one," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a watchdog group. ... and more »
Maya MacGuineas | September 7, 2009

Obama's Challenge: Selling Health Reform to the Middle Class | McClatchy Newspapers

"The middle class absolutely is the constituency that will determine" the outcome of the health care debate this year, said Len Nichols, director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank. "It will come down to Obama's portrayal of the benefits of the new world" of change versus the status quo of rising premiums and the difficulties of getting individual insurance...
Len Nichols | June 28, 2009

Congress Stuffs War-Funding Bill with Cash for Other Items | McClatchy Newspapers

"It's politics as usual in Washington," said Marc Goldwein, the policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan budget watchdog group. Few members of Congress objected to the spending surge. One dissenting Senate voice ...
Marc Goldwein | June 22, 2009

Health Overhaul Hard Enough, But Then There's Paying for It | McClatchy Newspapers

Marc Goldwein, the policy director for the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, estimates that Obama's health care policies would cost more than the White House figured -- he estimated $150 billion a year. ...
Marc Goldwein | June 19, 2009

Why Iran's Election Result is Suspect | McClatchy Newspapers

The groups Terror Free Tomorrow and the New America Foundation conducted the telephone poll of 1001 voters. There also are good reasons to be suspicious, however. Things seemed to go well on election day, when Iranians by the millions -- a record ...
June 17, 2009

Blue Dog Democrats Could Have Major Role in Shaping Health Bill | McClatchy Newspapers

Maya Macguineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, cautions Congress against creating a new entitlement program when the government is struggling with the cost of Medicare, the federal program for the elderly, ...
Maya MacGuineas | June 9, 2009

With Elections in February, Israel Searching for Its Obama | McClatchy Newspapers

The problem in Israel, said former Israeli adviser Daniel Levy, is that the nation's voters are still largely driven by fear, whereas Obama's election was a direct rejection of the politics of fear. In the upcoming election, voters are facing a choice ...
Daniel Levy | May 28, 2009