He accused Republicans of failing to disclose the specifics of their policy agenda and said major differences existed over tax policy, gun control, health care, Social Security and Medicare.
Orszag, the head of the Congressional Budget Office, is an expert on health care, pensions and Social Security policy.
Against that backdrop, White House officials and some Republicans are arguing that the best way out of the impasse is to resume the search for a comprehensive deficit-cutting deal that gets to the core of the long-term problem through a rewrite of tax policy and a revamp of entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
Mr Blair will probably defend his red lines on tax, foreign policy, the budget and social security.
Scotland's Parliament is to be responsible for most things except foreign policy, defence, immigration, social security and macroeconomics.
Under Mr Brown, they say, the Treasury gives the impression of having taken over policymaking on welfare reform from the Department of Social Security, and on microeconomic policy from the Department of Trade and Industry.
Pena Nieto has stressed that fixing social and economic problems will foster peace in Mexico, and he's made some security policy shifts.
Together, the moves served as reminders that Bush's economic team will have a new look as he pursues several major policy initiatives, including tax simplification and Social Security overhaul.
Between 2002 and 2010, Colombia recovered its standing in the international community thanks to remarkable improvements in our domestic policy, not just in security matters, but also the rule of law, economic performance and social policy.
East Timor would have its own parliament, its own elections, its own political parties, its own judiciary, its own police force, control over its own internal security, cultural, social and educational policy.
If passed, this will be the most important piece of social policy since the Social Security Act in the 1930s, and the most important reform of our health care system since Medicare passed in the 1960s.
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It should be immediately apparent that implementing this policy will require fundamental changes in welfare and social security programs, and in all three of the big old age programs, both on the spending side and the revenue side.
His policy is to increase social spending and implement a review of the security forces and judiciary.
BBC: Guatemala's new President, Alvaro Colom, 5 November 2007
They coauthored a book last year, Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform, that details policy solutions for America's underwater entitlement programs.
Finally, we know that rebuilding our economy will require action on a wide array of policy matters--from education and health care to energy and Social Security.
When he was ahead in the polls, he tended to stress his policy proposals: partial privatisation of Social Security, tax cuts, school vouchers and the like.
Unexpected negatives will include the Federal Reserve's continuing to muck up monetary policy, which will lead to higher interest rates, and bipartisan attempts to "solve" Social Security's actuarial black hole by boosting payroll taxes.
The enormous projected shortfalls in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid may outweigh the returns on public investments, so the optimal policy might well be to run surpluses right now.
The most daring strategy would be for Mr Bush to lay out an ambitious policy for the second term centred on a fundamental reform of America's entitlement programmes (principally Social Security and Medicare, the federally funded systems that provide, respectively, pensions and health care for the elderly) or basic changes to the tax system.
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Joseph Bruno, the state Senate majority leader, who has been at loggerheads with Mr Spitzer since the summer (Mr Spitzer's office accused Mr Bruno of abusing his aircraft privileges), says the policy change is unconstitutional and contradicts a federal act which requires, among other things, a valid Social Security number to get a driver's licence.
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