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MacGuineas, who heads the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, says some are looking for an encore this year. "The buildup is tremendous because we all recognize what an important moment in time it is," she said. "So all eyes will be on Chairman ...

Steve Clemons advises the international community to take a careful approach going forward. The rebel army has reportedly arrested at least one of his sons, but Gadhafi remains out of sight. NPR reserves the right to read on the air and/or publish on ...

In an op-ed for the Atlantic Monthly, Steve Clemons applauds President Obama's intervention that helped "tilt the odds," and advises the international community to take a similar approach going forward.

Maya MacGuineas heads the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She is about as close to an independent voice on tax policy as you'll find in the nation's capital. And here's her short take on the impact of those tax cuts. ...

The last time Congress used a mechanism like this was in the Gramm-Rudman act of 1985. Michele Norris talks with Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget president Maya MacGuineas about how that worked out — and how the triggers in today's ...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the centrist New America Foundation, agrees. "Holding the debt ceiling hostage is not necessarily a good thing, but one can't fail to acknowledge that these freshmen ...

"Of course they'd like to," says national security analyst Peter Bergen. "And some of the materials recovered in the [Osama] bin Laden compound indicate a desire to do something. But a desire to do something is quite different than actual ...

Steve Inskeep talks with Nicholas Schmidle about his upcoming article in The New Yorker on the Osama bin Laden raid. It's a detailed account of the planning for the operation — much of the information has not been previously disclosed — and a play by ...

... Israel is not willing to stop settlement activities, and the Palestinians at large are not willing at all to negotiate their pizza while it is being eaten," he says. The US hasn't helped matters, says Daniel Levy of the New American Foundation. ...

... An analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found that there is "much overlap" in the two plans. Both call for about $1.2 trillion in discretionary cuts upfront, with trillions more coming in the future, and as recommended by special congressional committees. ...

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