Statement by Former Senator Pete Domenici and Dr. Alice Rivlin

Senator Domenici and Dr. Rivlin, Co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force, Announce Task Force Membership and Meeting Dates

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Debt Reduction Task Force co-chairs former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete V. Domenici and Dr. Alice M. Rivlin, former Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Budget Office Director, released the following statement regarding today's U.S. House of Representatives vote to raise the debt ceiling:

"Today's vote to increase the public debt ceiling by nearly $2 trillion further underscores the rapid and unsustainable growth in our debt, and the need for a serious and politically viable long-term debt reduction plan. Our Task Force will consider all spending and revenue options and will produce, by year's end, a federal budget that reduces annual deficits and stabilizes federal debt at sustainable levels."

The Domenici-Rivlin Task Force is composed of the nation's leading budget experts, former cabinet officers and elected officials, as well as representatives of the academic, faith, seniors, business, and labor sectors. The Task Force will convene on February 24-25, April 14-15, June 15-16, September 14-15, and November 16-17 in Washington, D.C. and will hold two public forums around the country to develop its debt reduction plan.  A full list of task force members is below.  

Bipartisan Policy Center Debt Reduction Task Force:

Co-Chair Senator Pete Domenici: Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center

United States Senator from New Mexico (1973-2009)

Former Chairman, Senate Budget Committee

Co-Chair Dr. Alice Rivlin: Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Director, Office of Management and Budget (Clinton Administration)

Founding Director, Congressional Budget Office

Former Vice Chair, Federal Reserve

The Reverend A.R. Bernard, Sr.

President, Council of Churches of the City of New York

New York City Economic Development Corporation Board

Robert L. Bixby

Executive Director, The Concord Coalition

James Blanchard

Partner, DLA Piper

Former U.S. Ambassador to Canada, former Governor of the State of Michigan and former U.S. Representative from Michigan

Sheila Burke

Faculty, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Georgetown University

Former Chief of Staff to Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole

Dr. Leonard E. Burman

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs, Maxwell School of Syracuse University

Former Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis

Former Director of the Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution

Former Senior Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office

Robert N. Campbell II

Vice Chairman, Deloitte LLP (state, local, education, public health and nonprofit clients)

Henry Cisneros

Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Clinton Administration)

Former Mayor of San Antonio

Current Executive Chairman of CityView

Carlos M. Gutierrez

Scholar, University of Miami Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies

Former Secretary of Commerce and former President and CEO of Kellogg USA

G. William Hoagland

Vice President of Public Policy, CIGNA

Former Staff Director, Senate Budget Committee

Former Director of Budget and Appropriations, Office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist

Frank Keating

President and CEO, American Council of Life Insurers

Former Governor of Oklahoma

Karen Kerrigan

President and CEO, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council

Founder of Women Entrepreneurs Inc.

Maya MacGuineas

President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Donald Marron

Visiting Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute

Former Member, Council of Economic Advisors

Former Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office

Edward McElroy, Jr.

CEO of Union Labor Life Insurance Company

Former President, American Federation of Teachers

Former Vice President, AFL-CIO

Joe Minarik

Senior VP and Director of Research, Committee for Economic Development

Former Associate Director for Economic Policy, Office of Management and Budget

Former Chief Economist House Budget Committee

Marc H. Morial

President and CEO, National Urban League

Former Mayor of New Orleans

William D. Novelli

Professor, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University

Former CEO, AARP

Anthony A. (Tony) Williams

Executive Director of the Government Practice at the Corporate Executive Board

Director of State and Municipal Practice at Arent Fox PLLC

Former Mayor of the District of Columbia and President of the National League of Cities

About the Bipartisan Policy Center:

In 2007, former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George Mitchell formed the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) to develop and promote solutions that can attract the public support and political momentum to achieve real progress. The BPC acts as an incubator for policy efforts that engage top political figures, advocates, academics, and business leaders in the art of principled compromise. For more information please visit our website: http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/.

SOURCE Bipartisan Policy Center

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