The level of interest in the work of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction in Washington, D.C., can be measured by attendance at Business Roundtable's forum on deficit reduction. It's pouring rain in D.C., and yet we have an overflow crowd.
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Continue ReadingJohn Engler, president of Business Roundtable, says he’s optimistic the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction will agree on the $1.2 trillion of program reductions needed to avoid across-the-board deficit cuts.
But the bipartisan 12-member “super committee” should set its sights even...
Continue ReadingA round-up of the statements on the President Obama's decision to withdraw the proposed National Ambient Air Quality Standards on ground-level ozone, starting with Business Roundtable's John...
Continue ReadingTo say there was little to like in today’s report on August employment would be an understatement. Employment growth was ZERO, and the unemployment rate remained stuck at 9.1 percent.
Also discouraging: The Bureau of Labor...
Continue ReadingRegulatory excess remains high among the topics of interest.
It’s not just the EPA and ozone. Bloomberg reports, “Trucking Rules Called ‘Radioactive’...
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