Orszag, the head of the Congressional Budget Office, is an expert on health care, pensions and Social Security policy.
But the White House Social Security policy team was impenetrable on this point.
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Last year DHHS announced it would go after drug company executives using an obscure Social Security Act administrative policy.
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.
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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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.
Mr Blair will probably defend his red lines on tax, foreign policy, the budget and social security.
In 2005 George W. Bush put Social Security reform at the top of his domestic policy agenda for his second term as president.
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Although the 2004 law obligates claimant advocates not to omit material information, the Social Security Administration doesn't have a definitive policy about what should be submitted.
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.
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.
Scotland's Parliament is to be responsible for most things except foreign policy, defence, immigration, social security and macroeconomics.
Northern Ireland has its own social security legislation although there is a long-standing policy of parity in this area.
While these funds will only be available if Social Security reform is enacted, the Administration's policy is categorically defined including those resources.
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.
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.
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.
With them in charge of both houses, the president could find it difficult to push through any policy initiatives, such as his proposed social-security reforms, or another economic stimulus package.
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.
Ministers are anticipating this with a policy of blame dilution: Harriet Harman, the social security minister, was at pains to adopt a bi-partisan tone in her announcement, and the all-party select committee on social security will be given the chance to hold hearings on the draft legislation.
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.
For decades, policy wonks on the Republican fringes had talked about turning Social Security, the government safety-net program for retirees, into a system of private investment accounts.
His policy is to increase social spending and implement a review of the security forces and judiciary.
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Last year, its longtime policy chief John Rother quit after suggesting that some cuts in Social Security benefits could be acceptable.
The Center for Security Policy has learned that other confidence rackets are about to exacerbate the social turmoil in Albania.
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.
In the early 1990s, my colleagues and I at the National Center for Policy Analysis proposed to end this anti-work bias in the Social Security system.
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That revenue loss would be overwhelmed by a budget policy of returning every federal line item to 2007 levels, except Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, debt interest, and federal employee retirement benefits.
Pena Nieto has stressed that fixing social and economic problems will foster peace in Mexico, and he's made some security policy shifts.
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.
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