social security reform:
Is There a
Bipartisan Solution?
social security reform:
Is There a
Bipartisan Solution?
Thursday, June 30, 2005
8:00
a.m.
to
2:00 p.m.
CSIS
1800 K Street, N.W.
B-1 conference level
8:30 a.m. –
9:15 a.m.:
Introductory Address
Walker
Comptroller
General, GAO
9:15 a.m. –
10:45 a.m.:
Panel 1: “The Dimensions of the Problem–and the Possible
Solutions”
Chaired by
Rudy Penner,
Senior Fellow,
Urban Institute
Elizabeth
Robinson,
Deputy
Director, CBO
Eugene Steuerle,
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Peter Orszag,
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Sylvester
Schieber,
Vice President
& Director, Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Estelle James,
International Consultant on Pension Reform
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.:
Panel 2:
“Fashioning a Grand Compromise”
Chaired by
Warren Rudman,
Former U.S.
Senator and Co-chairman, The Concord Coalition
Don Nickles,
Former U.S. Senator (R-OK)
Tim Penny,
Former U.S. Representative (D-MN))
Charles
Stenholm,
Former U.S.
Representative (D-TX)
12:30
– 2:00: Luncheon Address
Peter G.
Peterson
Chairman, The
Blackstone Group
President, The
Concord Coalition
CSIS, Concord Coalition to Convene
Bipartisan
Social Security Reform Conference
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2005– David Walker, U.S.
Comptroller General, and Peter G. Peterson, former chairman of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2000-04), chairman of the Blackstone
Group, and president of The Concord Coalition, will join a distinguished,
bipartisan group of policy and opinion leaders at a joint Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Concord Coalition conference
designed to get the increasingly polarized Social Security debate back on
track. The conference will begin at 8:30 A.M. on Thursday, June 30, at CSIS,
1800 K Street, NW, B-1 conference level.
Political leaders from both parties–including former Sens. Warren Rudman
(R-NH) and Don Nickles (R-OK) and former Reps. Tim Penny
(D-MN) and Charles Stenholm (D-TX)–will participate in a series of
panel discussions on the dimensions of the Social Security challenge and
prospects for a bipartisan solution.
“Social Security promises more in benefits than it can afford to pay. It
offers younger workers a deteriorating deal on their contributions.
And–despite its large and rising cost–it leaves millions of elderly in
poverty,” said Richard Jackson, director of the CSIS Global Aging
Initiative.
Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, added:
“Social Security reform is among the greatest challenges facing America in
the 21st century. CSIS and Concord are concerned that the opportunity for
meaningful reform may soon be lost unless the responsible center again finds
its voice.”
CSIS is an independent, nonpartisan policy research organization. The
Concord Coalition is a nonpartisan grassroots organization dedicated to
generationally responsible fiscal policy.
Contact: Laura Wilkinson, CSIS
202-775-3242
Tristan Cohen, Concord Coalition
703-894-6222
