SGE Meetings
April Monthly Luncheon
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Speaker: Diane Lim Rogers
Affiliation: Chief Economist of the House Budget Committee
Title: "Can We Really Eliminate Our Budget Deficits?"
Summary: Budget analysts from all walks are increasingly concerned about the nation's fiscal outlook. The problems underlying the long-term imbalance are viewed differently from each side of the aisle, however, and none of the solutions are politically easy. Closing up the fiscal gap necessarily involves raising taxes and/or reducing spending, but there are policy choices that would represent compromises from both sides and that must be encouraged. If we are unwilling to make these compromises and hence end up accomplishing nothing in terms of deficit reduction, we end up passing an even greater burden of debt onto our children and grandchildren.
Bio: Diane Lim Rogers began as Chief Economist for the House Budget Committee
in January, working for Committee Chairman John Spratt. She had spent most
of 2006 at the Brookings Institution as Research Director of the Budgeting for National Priorities project. From 2004 to 2006 Dr. Rogers served as Chief Economist for the House Ways and Means Committee Democrats, and prior to that was a Principal Economist covering tax and budget policies for the Joint Economic Committee Democrats. Dr. Rogers has also worked as a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers (2000-2001), at the Urban Institute (1999-2000), and at the Congressional Budget Office (1994-99), and she began her career as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Penn State University (1989-94). Dr. Rogers received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1983, her M.A. from Brown University in 1984, and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1991. Her husband, John H. Rogers, is an Assistant Director in the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board, and they have four children.
Chinatown Garden Restaurant 618 H St., NW,
Washington Metro: Gallery Place (Red, Green, and Yellow Lines). Restaurant is 1/2 block east of the Metro station's northern (H Street) exit.
Reservations by 11:30 am April 18th, to Jonathan Schwabish Jonathan.Schwabish@cbo.gov or 202-226-5667.
$15 for SGE and NEC members $20 for non-members