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...earlier version of the Feb. 3 news article "Though FAS Slims Down Budget, Work Lies Ahead" stated that the Faculty voted to change the name of the Department of Comparative Literature into the Department of Literature and Comparative Literature. In fact, the original name of the department was Department of Literature and Comparative Literature, and it will now be called the Department of Comparative Literature...
...going to actually focus on the estimated budget savings,” Smith said. “We will continue to look at them. But we do believe that each of the things I’m going to talk about will bring some amount of savings...
...could intimidate those at the pinnacles of power. A soft-spoken academic who coaches his daughters' soccer team, he is described by virtually everyone who knows him as a genuinely nice guy. But consider some of the things that have been said about the director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and his ideas during the past year. "Off the wall," fumed Dave Obey, the famously volatile chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Senate majority leader Harry Reid has suggested - and not in a nice way - that Elmendorf's presumption is such that "maybe what he should...
...holy writ in Washington these days. In a nondescript building across a freeway from the Capitol, on a floor where J. Edgar Hoover once housed the FBI's fingerprint files, the CBO has for decades been regarded as the unbiased scorekeeper in the capital's never-ending budget battles, which alone gets to judge whether legislation will add to or lighten the national debt. A bumper sticker posted on a billboard in the hallway gives you an idea of what passes for humor in a place as wonky as this: "I Brake for Unfunded Mandates." See TIME's Person...
...itself do much to address that disconnect, Elmendorf suggests. The CBO director projects that even if such a spending cap were to extend to all discretionary government outlays (Obama would exempt national security), it would save only $10 billion in the next fiscal year, less than 1% of the budget. Nor is it likely that Congress will make much of a dent in the problem, at least not in the short term. (See 10 players in health care reform...