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Session 3: Fiscal Policy: What Does the Future Hold?
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Speakers
Stuart Hoffman
Chief Economist
PNC Financial Services Group, moderator
Diane Lim Rogers
Chief Economist
House Budget Committee
Diane Lim Rogers is currently the House Budget Committee’s Chief Economist, serving Chairman John Spratt and other Democratic members of the Committee. From February 2006 to January 2007 she was Research Director of the Budgeting for National Priorities project at the Brookings Institution. While at Brookings she published several opinion pieces emphasizing the importance of fiscal responsibility and a paper on “Reducing the Deficit through Better Tax Policy.” She was also a member of the “Fiscal Wake-Up Tour” (organized by the Concord Coalition) along with U.S. Comptroller General David Walker and scholars from other leading think tanks.
From 2004 to 2006 Dr. Rogers served as Chief Economist for the House Ways and Means Committee Democrats, and prior to that was a Principal Economist covering tax and budget policies for the Joint Economic Committee Democrats. She was a Senior Economist on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers during the last year of the Clinton Administration and first 100 days of the Bush Administration, and in President Clinton’s final Economic Report of the President (2001) drafted the sections extolling the merits of fiscal discipline. Dr. Rogers has also worked at the Urban Institute and the Congressional Budget Office, and was Assistant Professor of Economics at Penn State University.
Dr. Rogers coauthored (with Don Fullerton) the book Who Bears the Lifetime Tax Burden?, published by the Brookings Institution in 1993, emphasizing the distributional and incentive effects of broad-based taxes, and in 1997 coauthored (with Joyce Manchester) a Congressional Budget Office study on the economic effects of fundamental tax reform. Her most recent areas of research have focused on the economic effects of the Bush tax cuts, federal income tax policy more generally, interactions between federal- and state-level government programs, and the long-term budgetary pressures associated with demographic change. She continues to teach as an Adjunct Professor for the Economics Department and School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University.
Dr. Rogers received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1983, her M.A. from Brown University in 1984, and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1991. Her husband, John, is an economist at the Federal Reserve Board, and they have four children.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Economic Policy Chair
John McCain 2008, The Exploratory Committee
Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the former Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Currently, he is the Economic Policy Chair for the John McCain 2008 Campaign.
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