Schedule

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
10 a.m.
210 Cannon House Office Building

Subject: The SAFE Commission Act (H.R. 3654) and the Long-Term Fiscal Challenge

Witnesses:

  • The Honorable Peter G. Peterson
    Chairman, The Peter G. Peterson Foundation

  • The Honorable David M. Walker
    President and CEO, The Peter G. Peterson Foundation

  • Robert Greenstein
    Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

  • Henry J. Aaron, Ph.D.
    Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
    The Brookings Institution

  • Alison Acosta Fraser
    Director of Economic Policy Studies,
    The Heritage Foundation
Additional witnesses may be announced.


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