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The Battle of the Budget in Plain English main page
   
The Battle of the Budget in Plain English
Aired 1/4/1996
The battle of the budget rages in Washington and it has a vocabulary of its own: CBO, OMB, baselines, entitlements, and debt ceilings. What does it all mean? Is it petty bickering or historic change? And whatever happened to plain English?
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Allen Schick
professor of public policy at the University of Maryland
David Mason
director of the U.S. Congress assessment project at the Heritage Foundation
Robert Reischauer
senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
Stephen Moore
director of fiscal studies at the Cato Institute, co-author of Ending Corporate Welfare as We Know It
Originally Aired: 1/4/1996
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