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Domestic Policy in President Bush’s Second Term
With the election over, President Bush is putting the finishing touches on his domestic priorities for the next four years. The president has talked about privatizing social security, tax reform and new tax cuts, and creating an “ownership society.”
The Brookings Institution’s Welfare Reform & Beyond initiative will convene several panels of experts to review what is known about the likely shape of a second-term domestic agenda, the pros and cons of selected policy proposals, their likely effects on the deficit, and how they might be modified by the new Congress.
Agenda
Introduction
Moderators
Bill Frenzel
Former Brookings Expert
Maya MacGuineas
President - Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Panel Four: Health Care
Joseph Antos
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute
Panel One: Social Security
Eric Engen
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Peter R. Orszag
Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Managing Director, and Global Co-Head of Healthcare - Lazard
Panel Three: Fiscal Outlook
Alice M. Rivlin
Former Brookings Expert
Panel Two: Tax Reform
Bruce Bartlett
Author, The Benefit and the Burden (Simon & Schuster, 2012)
William G. Gale
The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy
Senior Fellow - Economic Studies
Director - Retirement Security Project
Co-Director - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
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