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Robert D. Reischauer

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Testimony
Federal Budget and Economy

Addressing the Nation's Contradictory Fiscal Challenges

In testimony before the Senate Budget Committee, UI's president and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, discusses remedies for the nation's two serious --and diametrically opposed --fiscal challenges: the immediate, short-run problems of economic recession, and the issue of long-...

January 21, 2009
Robert D. Reischauer
Testimony
Individual Taxes

Defining Our Long-Term Fiscal Challenges (Reischauer)

The recent fiscal situation and the intermediate-term budget outlook may appear relatively benign, Urban Institute President Robert Reischauer told the Senate Budget Committee, but deficits and debt will gradually grow to unprecedented and unsustainable levels if current tax and spending...

January 30, 2007
Robert D. Reischauer
Testimony
Federal Budget and Economy

Framing the Budget Debate for the Future

Urban Institute president, Robert Reischauer, testifies before Congress on some of the challenges facing the Congress as it makes its decisions about the fiscal 2003 budget.

January 29, 2002
Robert D. Reischauer
Brief
Federal Budget and Economy

Don't Count on That Tax Cut

[New York Times] President Bush will sign his long-promised tax cut today. But conservatives shouldn't break out the champagne just yet, nor should liberals start taking their antidepressants. Passing the cuts was easy. Mesmerized by projections of mountainous surpluses, few legislators...

June 7, 2001
Robert D. Reischauer