The Fiscal Solutions Tour in San Jose
The Concord Coalition and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation bring the Fiscal Solutions Tour to San Jose, California on Friday, September 24th.
The Fiscal Solutions Tour will visit the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, co-hosted by The San Jose Mercury News and The Concord Coalition. The Tour will bring experts with diverse perspectives to cities around the country this fall to foster informed public dialogue about possible answers to the nation's fiscal and economic challenges over the next decade and beyond.
Featured speakers at the San Jose program:
Robert L. Bixby, executive director of The Concord Coalition(view presentation)
David M. Walker, president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and former U.S. comptroller general(view presentation)
Isabel V. Sawhill, senior fellow, Economic Studies at Brookings, and former associate director of OMB.(view presentation)
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of The American Action Forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office
Join in the public discussion, which will include a question and answer session with the panel.
This event is free and open to the public. Boxed lunches will be provided. Please RSVP to Christine Hovde at [email protected].
About the Hosts
Robert L. Bixby is executive director of The Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan organization that encourages fiscal responsibility in Washington and helps educate the public about the federal budget and the need to protect our children and future generations from excessive government debt.
Bixby joined Concord in 1992 and served in several positions, including policy director and national field director, before being named executive director in 1999. He has served as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Debt Reduction Task Force (the Domenici-Rivlin commission), which produced a model plan for comprehensive fiscal reform.
He frequently speaks around the country on the nation’s fiscal challenges and possible bipartisan solutions, including greater government efficiency, tax reform and improvements in the entitlement program. He has testified at congressional hearings and been interviewed by news organizations around the country. Bixby has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN and Fox News.
He and The Concord Coalition’s “Fiscal Wake-Up Tour” were also featured prominently in the critically-acclaimed documentary film “I.O.U.S.A.”
Bixby has a bachelor's degree in political science from American University, a juris doctorate from George Mason University School of Law, and a master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Before joining Concord, he practiced law and served as the chief staff attorney of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
Steve Winn is the communications director for The Concord Coalition. He handles media requests and works with the organization’s policy experts in preparing issue briefs, blogs, op-ed articles and broadcast commentary. He edits the newsletter that Concord usually publishes each week Congress is in session.
Winn also speaks to college classes, community groups and other organizations about the nation’s fiscal and economic challenges. He is involved with Concord’s grassroots programs around the country, working with the organization’s field staff and local partners in presenting public forums and deficit-reduction exercises. He arranges briefings for newspaper editorial boards and other journalists.
Winn has taught courses on the media, politics and American society at Baker University’s School of Professional and Graduate Studies in the Kansas City area.
Before joining Concord in 2009, he held several reporting and editing positions during a 30-year career at The Kansas City Star. As the paper’s deputy editorial page editor, he frequently wrote about national politics, economics, health care policy and the need for fiscal reform.
Winn has a master's degree in liberal arts with an emphasis in history from Baker University and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
The Concord Coalition is a national, nonpartisan organization dedicated to fiscal responsibility and reform. It was founded in 1992 by Peter G. Peterson, former U.S. commerce secretary; Warren Rudman, a Republican senator from New Hampshire, and Paul Tsongas, a former Democratic senator from Massachusetts.