February 9, 2007
9:00 - 10:30 am
Urban Institute
2100 M Street N.W., 5th Floor
Washington, D.C.

A group of experts evaluated President Bush's proposed budget for fiscal 2008.

Welcome
	Robert Reischauer, president, Urban Institute; former director, CBO (moderator)
Presentations
	Larry Korb, senior fellow, Center for American Progress; director of National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
	Alice Rivlin, senior fellow, Brookings Institution
	Leonard Burman, senior fellow, Urban Institute; director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
	John Block, Olsson, Frank, and Weeda; former secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
	Bill Hoagland, former policy advisor, Office of Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.)
	Maya MacGuineas, president, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, New America Foundation
	Eugene Steuerle, senior fellow, Urban Institute; codirector, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
	Open discussion
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Table Participants

Joe Antos, Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute

Bob Bixby, executive director, Concord Coalition

John Block, senior policy advisor, Olsson, Frank, and Weeda; former secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Len Burman, senior fellow, Urban Institute; director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

Stan Collender, managing director, Qorvis Communications

Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies, Cato Institute; former senior economist, Joint Economic Committee

Jason Fichtner, minority senior economist, Joint Economic Committee

Bill Gale, vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution; codirector, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

Bob Greenstein, executive director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Scott Gudes, minority staff director, Senate Budget Committee

Bill Hoagland, former policy advisor, Office of Sen. Bill Frist

Arlene Holen, associate director for research and reports, Congressional Budget Office

Doug Holtz-Eakin, economic policy chair, McCain 2008; former director, Congressional Budget Office

Jim Horney, senior fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; former deputy staff director, Senate Budget Committee

Susan Irving, director of federal budget issues, Government Accountability Office

Larry Korb, senior fellow, Center for American Progress; director of National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; former assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Defense

Maya MacGuineas, president, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, New America Foundation

Rosemary Marcuss, chief economist, Bureau of Economic Analysis; former assistant director for tax analysis, Congressional Budget Office

Tom Miller, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute; former senior health economist, Joint Economic Committee

Van Ooms, senior fellow, Committee for Economic Development; former executive director for policy and chief economist, House Budget Committee

Norm Ornstein, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute

Rudy Penner, senior fellow, Urban Institute; former director, Congressional Budget Office

Paul Posner, director of the MPA program, George Mason University; former managing director, federal budget and intergovernmental issues, General Accounting Office

Wendell Primus, policy advisor, Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives; former staff director, Joint Economic Committee

Bob Reischauer, president, Urban Institute; former director, CBO (moderator)

Alice Rivlin, senior fellow, Brookings Institution; former director, Congressional Budget Office; former director, Office of Management and Budget

Dallas Salisbury, president and CEO, Employee Benefit Research Institute

Frank Sammartino, deputy director and majority chief economist, Joint Economic Committee

Belle Sawhill, senior fellow, Brookings Institution

Margaret Simms, vice president for governance and economic analysis, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Austin Smythe, executive associate director, Office of Management and Budget

Gene Steuerle, senior fellow, Urban Institute; codirector, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

Chad Stone, majority staff director, Joint Economic Committee

Eric Toder, senior fellow, Urban Institute; former deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis, U.S. Treasury Department

Bob Williams, principal research associate, Urban Institute; former assistant director for tax analysis, Congressional Budget Office

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