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Arnold Perl, steering committee chairman for Memphis: America's Aerotropolis, went to the right place Wednesday for frank advice about jump-starting the airport-based economic development effort.
Sales and marketing executives put their heads together for about three minutes over lunch and offered several thousand dollars of free feedback for taking Memphis's fast-cycle logistics industry to the next level.
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Elements of Pakistan's military and intelligence service assisted Osama bin Laden before he was killed during the recent U.S. raid on his Abbottobad hideout, the chairman of the House Intelligence committee said on Tuesday.
I believe that there are elements of both the military and intelligence service who in some way, both prior and maybe even current, provided some level of assistance to Osama bin Laden," said Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, who recently returned from a visit to Pakistan.
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WASHINGTON -- With one eye on the calendar and the other on elusive bipartisanship, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd plans to offer his own version of a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations without Republican support.
Dodd said Thursday he would release his proposal on Monday and begin the committee's work on the bill the week of March 22.
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WASHINGTON, April 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- The following is a statement by former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici and former White House Budget Director Alice Rivlin, co-chairs of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force, on the 2012 budget resolution released by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan today:
We applaud House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan for putting forth a detailed budget plan, which rightly addresses Medicare and Medicaid. Chairman Ryan's ongoing leadership in facing up to our looming debt crisis remains critical as the debate moves forward. While we don't agree with all his specific proposals, we admire his courage in aggressively taking on the major entitlement programs. Chairman Ryan has accurately acknowledged th...
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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN MICHAEL STEELE HOLDS A NEWS CONFERENCE AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB ON HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION
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Domenici and Rivlin Testified as Co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force
WASHINGTON, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In testimony before the Senate Budget Committee today, former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici and former White House Budget Director Alice Rivlin, co-chairs of the Bipartisan Policy Center's (BPC) Debt Reduction Task Force, called on Members of Congress to act quickly and enact a comprehensive budget plan to reduce the nation's mounting debt.
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I just didn't realize that a member wasn't present," said Sen. Thomas Libous, RBinghamton, who was acting as the committee chairman during the meeting. "We had a member who was not here and that created a problem, it's that simple.
"The lieutenant governor is not an elected member of the Senate," Libous said after the committee meeting. "We used language out of the constitution that basically states that. We believe it's good language."
"It takes 20 minutes to read these rules changes. Frankly, Mr. Chairman, I think we've seen this become frankly a filibuster," he said. "I haven't heard one solid argument against these rules."
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a , co-chairs of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt Reduction Task Force, on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction's failure to reach an agreement ahead of the pending deadline:
We are profoundly disappointed by the Joint Select Committee's failure to reach a bipartisan agreement. The Committee had many ideas, policy options and solutions available to it, like those produced by our Debt Reduction Task Force and the Bowles-Simpson Commission, several of which received the support of both parties.