Witnesses:

Panel 1
Maya MacGuineas – President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

David Kendall – Senior Fellow for Health and Fiscal Policy, Third Way

Donald Kettl – Dean, University of Maryland School of Public Policy

Panel 2
G. William Hoagland – Former Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget

Marty Paone – Former Democratic Secretary, U.S. Senate

Eric Ueland – Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist