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Fixing the Rules of the Game
Monday, January 2nd, 2012 - 17:18
Monday, January 2, 2012 - 16:15
The Peterson-Pew Commission is comprised of pragmatic politicians and budget experts from both sides of the aisle, both sides of the Capitol, and both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. They didn’t set out to offer the usual radical solutions, such as constitutional amendments, removing entitlement spending, or combining the appropriations and authorization committees into a single process. Those proposals have been offered before and have gone nowhere.
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Super Committee's Failure May Mean Widespread Cuts to Health Programs
Monday, November 21st, 2011 - 23:58
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 22:20
Starting in 2013 Medicare, biomedical research, and public health programs will be at risk of substantial funding cuts due to the country's fiscal crisis. The two biggest expenses on the government tab, Medicaid and Medicare, will be spared, for the most part though. Medicaid, a matching federal-state funding program would not be affected by the automatic trigger, while Medicare would experience a 2% overall reduction, seen in payments to hospitals and providers.
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Kathleen Merrigan
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 - 12:01
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Working alongside Secretary Tom Vilsack, Merrigan oversees the day-to-day operation of USDA's many programs and spearheads the $149 billion USDA budget process.
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Sat, 12/31/2011
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Working alongside Secretary Tom Vilsack, Merrigan oversees the day-to-day operation of USDA's many programs and spearheads the $149 billion USDA budget process.
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Greetings, I happened on the Business of Government radio interview with Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan late one night and was immediately impressed by the quality of both the interviewer and the interviewee neither of whom I knew of till the break and names were given.
Dr Merrigan is one of the most verbally fluent, articulate coherent and informed government representative I have ever heard. Even though on my way to another radio program I stayed to hear the whole interview. Agriculture is in any event a topic I care about, and I am fortunate to live in a Berkshire County, MA, (Congressman Olver's district ) the community of which has a dedicated and progressive relationship to it's agriculture. Robin Van Eyn who created the first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm, here in Sheffield, was a close friend and just today I had a conversation with some young people from the latest CSA: fairly recent college graduates who miraculosly have chosen to band together and start a farm in Sheffield.
I am deeply grateful for the younger generation who are turning to agriculture - many without prior family farms in their background. (Perhaps ignorance is bliss in this case!).
Thank you for providing this service. I will be exploring other topics
Ann M. Condon
Great Barrington
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The Cost of Cuts: A Column by Barrett and Greene
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 - 14:02
The federal budget agreement made in mid-April aimed for some $39 billion in cuts nationally. Over the course of fiscal year 2010, 39 states, accounted for by the National Association of State Budget Officers, sliced some $18.3 billion from already agreed-upon spending.
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Weekly Wrap Up: Resolve and Virtualization
Friday, April 8th, 2011 - 16:02
Friday, April 8, 2011 - 15:58
This week, our focus was on key considerations before moving to a virtualized development and test (dev-test) environment.
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Dan Tangherlini
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 - 14:52
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Tangherlini serves as the principal policy advisor on the development and execution of the budget and performance plans for Treasury
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Sat, 06/18/2011
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Assistant Secretary for Management, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Follow the Technology Money: Priorities from the 2012 IT Budget Proposal (and Beyond)
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 - 10:07
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 08:52
As occurs each year, the President’s Budget Proposal includes a Chapter on IT spending – it’s in the “Analytical Perspectives” document, Chapter 20. This chapter highlights key current and forthcoming priorities, and represents the IT spending report required under the Clinger Cohen Act.
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Weekly Wrap Up: Consolidation Framework and Frank Testimony
Friday, February 25th, 2011 - 15:52
Friday, February 25, 2011 - 14:46
Last week, Debra Cammer-Hines, our Vice President and Partner responsible for Strategy and Transformation Consulting, testified before Congress to share our recommendations to save funding and improve performance – the same recommendations that have been presented in this blog. As the White House and Congressional leaders discuss options to address the debt, we’ll continue to share our experience in using modern management, technology and resources to address the de
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Weekly Wrap Up: Our Top 10 List
Friday, December 31st, 2010 - 15:11
Friday, December 31, 2010 - 14:01
Here’s my Top 10 List of “Don’t Miss Information” related to Improving Federal Performance and Reducing Costs:
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Weekly Wrap Up: It All Matters
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 - 16:29
Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 15:23
We talked this week about David Walker’s recommendations in Comeback America to address and reduce the debt. In addition to his suggestions about revising the budget process to promote zero based budgeting and required controls on spending, Walker advocates a very thoughtful strategic planning approach across the Federal government.
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I am sure you are already aware but three out of these proposals: fiscal rules and budget targets; multi-year budgets; and budgeting for performance; were also key planks of the reforms put in place by the British New Labour government between 1997 and 2010. as i have commented on frequently over the past 15 years, including as a specialist adviser to our Parliamentary Treasury Committee, these reforms proved much harder to maintain in practice than in rhetoric. This is not to say the attempt should not be made, but it would be useful to learn from lessons from what went wrong in the UK, as well as what went right.