UPCOMING EVENT: Long-Term Care Reform
Reuters/Kirsten Neumann - Elderly residents use walking frames to stroll along a corridor at the St. Josef residential care home
Friday, July 11, 2008
9:00 AM to 11:45 AM
Washington, DC
Brookings’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform will host a briefing on long-term care reform in the United States that will focus on opportunities to improve quality of care and address the long-term fiscal challenges. Distinguished panelists include Senators Ron Wyden and Susan Collins; Representative Jim McCrery; Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag; former Senator Bob Kerrey; and former Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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Health Care
EVENT VIDEO
Reuters/Jonathan Ernst - Tourists stand in the rain outside the Supreme Court in Washington
Benjamin Wittes, Stuart Taylor, Jr., Miguel A. Estrada and Randolph D. Moss, June 27, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns; ruled that it is unconstitutional to execute someone who rapes a child; and backed Guantánamo detainees' habeas corpus rights. At a Judicial Issues Forum briefing on these rulings and other developments of the 2007-08 term, Benjamin Wittes and Stuart Taylor, Jr. were among the analysts who discussed the ramifications of these landmark decisions. Miguel Estrada of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; and Randolph Moss of WilmerHale also participated.
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Courts, Judges, Justice and Law, U.S. Judiciary
SPOTLIGHT: Fiscal Policy
Reuters/Jim Young- Employee inspects copies of the federal budget as they roll off the production line in Washington
Henry J. Aaron, June 24, 2008
Henry J. Aaron testified before the House Committee on the Budget about H.R. 3654, a bill that would establish a federal budget commission to "reform tax policy and entitlement benefit programs and ensure a sound fiscal future."
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Fiscal Policy, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Care
Event Video
Justice Stephen Breyer delivers a keynote address at an event inaugurating the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Govenance Studies
Strobe Talbott and Justice Stephen G. Breyer, June 24, 2008
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke on international governance and American law at a Brookings event to inaugurate the new Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies. As the first recipient of the Zilkha chair, Brookings Senior Fellow William Galston will be tackling tough questions in the area of political and institutional reform.
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Global Governance, Courts, Justice and Law, Judges, U.S. Judiciary