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Reuters/Jonathan Ernst - A Senate Budget Committee staff assistant stacks copies of US President Barack Obama's 2011 Budget for distribution to Senate staff on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Save to My Portfolio President Obama’s Budget Proposal

Wednesday, February 03, 2010
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Washington, DC

Details of President Obama’s 2011 budget were released on Monday and lawmakers are beginning a new year of budget-writing. On Wednesday, Isabel Sawhill participates in a live web chat with Politico’s Fred Barbash to take your questions on how the president can responsibly reduce the deficit. Learn More and Register

Budget Deficit, The Presidency, Federal Budget, U.S. Economy

 


Reuters/Larry Downing - U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement at the opening session of the Forum on Modernizing Government in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Save to My Portfolio 2010 State of the Union

On January 27, President Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress. He addressed the economy and jobs; the war in Afghanistan; reforming health care; and transnational threats such as climate change and nuclear proliferation. Brookings experts have provided research and commentary on these and related issues, plus assessed Obama’s first year in office in the Status Report. Learn More

SPOTLIGHT: Legal Architecture for the War on Terror


Reuters/POOL New - Guantanamo guard stands inside a doorway at Camp 6 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.

Save to My Portfolio The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantánamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking

Benjamin Wittes, Robert M. Chesney and Rabea Benhalim, January 22, 2010

On January 22, 2009, President Obama set a one-year deadline for closing the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. With the facility still open and the president’s decision not to seek additional legislative authority for detentions there—combined with Congress’s lack of interest in the task—judges must write the rules governing military detention of terrorist suspects, write Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney and Rabea Benhalim. Read More

Legal Architecture for the War on Terror, Guantánamo, Terrorism, Courts, Judges

BROWN CENTER ON EDUCATION POLICY

Save to My PortfolioExpanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education

Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, Tom Loveless, Jay Greene, W. Bentley MacLeod , Thomas Nechyba , Paul Peterson, Meredith Rosenthal and Michelle Croft, February 02, 2010, The Brookings Institution

Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary EducationSchool choice exercises a powerful pull on parents of school children. The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings and a task force composed of leading education policy experts propose expanding school choice to increase equity and create a market within the public sector for school quality. Parents should be afforded the maximum degree of choice, provided with valid information on the performance of the education programs that are available, and have their preferences for education programs reflected in the funding of those programs. Read More

Education, School Choice, K-12 Education, Charter Schools, School Vouchers, School Privatization, U.S. Department of Education

BUDGETING FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

Save to My PortfolioDefining Deficits Down

Isabel V. Sawhill, January 29, 2010, The Brookings Institution

Defining Deficits DownFollowing the release of President Obama's budget, Isabel Sawhill believes there will be a lot of hand-wringing about the possible economic fallout from a virtually unprecedented accumulation of debt. Not only will this string of future deficits have dire economic consequences, she says, but will also reduce public confidence in their government. Ultimately, the budget’s insufficient proposals suggest that the current administration will be criticized for moving the goal posts on deficit reduction and for doing far too little to restore fiscal balance. Read More

U.S. Economy, Budget Deficit, U.S. Congress, U.S. Politics

GOVERNANCE STUDIES

Save to My PortfolioPresident Obama’s State of the Union Address: In Defense of His Administration

William A. Galston, January 27, 2010, The Brookings Institution

President Obama’s State of the Union Address: In Defense of His AdministrationDuring his first State of the Union address, President Obama delivered a confident defense of his administration’s first year, writes William Galston. The president laid out an agenda that he clearly hopes will unify his party and rally public support. While accepting responsibility for not explaining health reform and other parts of his program more clearly, he did not apologize for the ambitious scope of his efforts and instead, justified it as a long overdue response to decades of gridlock and evasion, asserts Galston. Read More

The Presidency, U.S. Politics, Governance

GOVERNANCE STUDIES

Save to My PortfolioCitizens United vs. Federal Election Commission is an Egregious Exercise of Judicial Activism

Thomas E. Mann, January 26, 2010, McClatchy Newspapers

The recent decision in Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission will likely go down in history as one of the Supreme Court's most egregious exercises of judicial activism when it ruled the ban on corporate treasury funding of independent political campaigns was unconstitutional, writes Thomas Mann. As a result, Mann encourages the proliferation of small donors to balance the political spending by corporations. Read More

Campaign Finance, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Congress, Corporate Social Responsibility

METROPOLITAN POLICY PROGRAM

Save to My PortfolioMoving Forward Incrementally on Infrastructure

Robert Puentes, January 22, 2010, The Brookings Institution

Moving Forward Incrementally on InfrastructureIn the response to President Obama speech at the 75th annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Robert Puentes comments that the president’s proposals, albeit small, represent significant steps toward the bold infrastructure vision he offered in his 2008 speech to the same group. Read More

Infrastructure, Cities, U.S. Economic Growth, Competitiveness

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The Status Report

Assessing the Obama Administration’s First Year

During the presidential transition, Brookings scholars wrote a series of policy recommendations in 12 memos to incoming President Barack Obama. One year into the new presidency, our experts rated the progress of the new administration on those same issues in a series of daily commentary and video.

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Spotlight

TopicEducation

The economic and political well-being of any society requires a well-educated citizenry. Brookings’s work extends beyond the K-12 bookends to include pre-school interventions, higher education and the challenges of education in developing countries.

ExpertDomenico Lombardi

As president of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, Domenico Lombardi’s work at Brookings focuses on the international financial crisis and the reform of the IMF and the World Bank. He is an expert on G-20 and G8 Summits.

TopicHealth Care

Brookings is committed to producing innovative policy solutions to our nation’s most difficult challenges. The country may face no more important domestic policy challenge than the much-needed reform of our health care system. Through an institution-wide effort, Brookings delivers new ideas and offers policy solutions to improve health care both at home and globally.

ExpertMwangi S. Kimenyi

Mwangi S. Kimenyi is a senior fellow with the Africa Growth Initiative. He focuses on Africa's development, including institutions for economic growth, the political economy, and private sector development.

Policy CenterCenter on Children and Families

The Center on Children and Families studies policies on the well-being of America's children and their parents and seeks a more effective means of addressing poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity in the United States.

ExpertVanda Felbab-Brown

Vanda Felbab-Brown focuses on the national security implications of illicit economies and strategies for managing them. She is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

ExpertTed Gayer

Ted Gayer is the co-director of the Economic Studies program and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He conducts research on a variety of economic issues, focusing particularly on public finance, environmental and energy economics, housing, and regulatory policy.

ExpertSuzanne Maloney

Suzanne Maloney studies Iran, the political economy of the Persian Gulf and Middle East energy policy. A former U.S. State Department policy advisor, she has also counseled private companies on Middle East issues.

Research ProjectAfrica Growth Initiative

The Africa Growth Initiative conducts high-quality policy research and analysis focused on attaining sustainable economic development and prosperity in Africa, while amplifying the voice of African researchers in policy-making and planning.

Research ProjectArms Control Initiative

Few problems pose greater challenges to U.S. national security than controlling, reducing and countering the proliferation of nuclear arms. The Brookings Arms Control Initiative brings the Institution’s multidisciplinary strengths to bear on the critical challenges of arms control and non-proliferation.

Research ProjectLatin America Initiative

The Latin America Initiative provides high-quality, in-depth, and independent research across a range of economic and political issues, and offers policy recommendations aimed at U.S. and Latin American policymakers.

ExpertIsabel V. Sawhill

A nationally known budget expert, Isabel Sawhill focuses on domestic poverty and federal fiscal policy. She is also co-director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings.

ExpertMark McClellan

Mark McClellan works on promoting high-quality, innovative and affordable health care. Once commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dr. McClellan now directs the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform.

ExpertAmy Liu

Amy Liu is deputy director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. Her policy studies include economic competitiveness, metropolitan growth and development, governance reforms, urban reinvestment, and social equity.

ExpertRichard C. Bush III

Richard Bush is the director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies. His public service career spans Congress, the intelligence community and the U.S. State Department. He currently focuses on China-Taiwan and U.S.-China relations, the Korean peninsula and Japan’s security.

Research ProjectBrookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement

The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement monitors displacement problems worldwide, works with governments, regional bodies, international organizations and civil society to create more effective policies and institutional arrangements for Internally Displaed Persons.

Policy CenterCenter for Northeast Asian Policy Studies

CNAPS conducts research, analysis, and outreach designed to enhance policy development and understanding on the pressing political, economic, and security issues facing Northeast Asia.

Policy CenterUrban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

The Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, is comprised of nationally recognized experts in tax, budget and social policy who have served at the highest levels of government.