Christian Science Monitor

"This country needs a deal to achieve $4 [trillion] to $5 trillion in deficit reduction, and we need to put such a deal in place as quickly as possible,” Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said in a recent ...

... "Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed," says Rebecca MacKinnon, cofounder of Global Voices Online, a network of 300 volunteer bloggers writing, analyzing, and translating news in more than 30 languages. ...

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“This is consistent with what he has been saying,” says Marc Goldwein, policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a watchdog group in Washington. “Enacting the plan now but that does not mean that all the cuts have to be in the ...

“He has been sort of a climber, not only within Al Qaeda but in the larger jihadist movement,” says Brian Fishman, terrorism research fellow at the New American Foundation. “He's attached himself to a rising star within the organization – bin Laden ...

(Having a hard time finding a video clip on it now, but I've heard Simpson's AARP-Norquist rant live at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's fiscal summit and at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's annual dinner most recently. ...

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke speaks about fiscal sustainability at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Annual Conference in Washington June 14, 2011. Mr. Bernanke, along with other leaders, rushed into to help the US economy ...

... suspension of payments on principal or interest on the Treasury's debt obligations could cause severe disruptions in financial markets and the payments system," Bernanke said at an event sponsored by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

The danger is that every year "our interest payments grow, the risk of a crisis grows," says Maya MacGuineas, who heads the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. In the recent Pew poll, roughly three-quarters of Americans say the ...

"If there is one central message among all of the findings from this year's Trustees report, it is that the time for Social Security reform is now," the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, headed by Maya MacGuineas, ...

Those numbers come from a new analysis of the plan by a nonpartisan group, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Many budget experts say that deficit cuts of that magnitude would be a credible fiscal plan – one that would cause the national ...