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Politicians must listen closely to their constituents in order to fix American politics, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele said in a speech at the Institute of Politics yesterday...
...year, according to Lehner. German opposition parties supported buying the CD if it would help uncover the identities of suspected tax dodgers. "It's a scandal that [the authorities] pursue every parking offender but not those people who evade paying up to $300 million in taxes," Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the Social Democratic Party, told the paper Hamburger Abendblatt. The German police union was equally adamant that moral concerns should be pushed aside. "The police work with criminals on a daily basis - we have paid informers who help us uncover drug trafficking or other crimes," Konrad Freiberg, head...
...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 do is run for Congress.'' And Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus has felt the need to inform him, "You might be Moses...
...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 of the Year 2009: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke...
...independence. A native of upstate New York, he taught at Harvard before joining the CBO as an analyst in 1993. Since then, he has done stints at the Federal Reserve, the Council of Economic Advisers and the Treasury Department. "I have enormous respect for him," says Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad. "He plays it straight, and he's enormously serious about getting it right...