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
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November 29
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Introduction
Isabel V. Sawhill Senior Fellow Emeritus - Economic Studies, Center for Economic Security and Opportunity @isawhill -
Moderators
Bill Frenzel Former Brookings ExpertMaya 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 InstitutePeter 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, Co-Director - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center @WilliamGale2
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