Young was among the speakers. An hour and 45 minutes. Hi, i know everybody is excited about the budget scoring, but im asking to ask everyone to take their seats. Thank you all so much for coming, particularly on an intermittently rainy friday afternoon. We are so excited to be here for the launch of the budget lab. My name is marcy gimble, im with our chief economist and president , our hope is to bring attention to the way that budget scoring is an incredibly important part of the policy process, bring a new perspective with focus on innovation and transparency. Were incredibly excited for danny to get up here shortly and share some of the research that weve been working on. Before i do that, im going to briefly embarrass our team by pointing them out because without them this would not have been possible. We have rich, our director of policy analysis, ernie our director of economics, john rico, associate director of policy analysis, harris epsteiner, associate director of economics.
John, is deadlock in this lame duck all but guaranteed . My seuss is off. That is a good holiday thing. Deadlock is all but guaranteed. After the election there was a little bit of getting along, but i do not think it is going to happen. And the immigration thing poison the well on the tax extenders deal. You could see the republicans were just there, and in the immigration thing, the deal blew up. That was a deal that was this close to getting done with bipartisan support. The logic and flow points to what you are saying. I think contrary to logic. There has to be a deal on the next couple of weeks. There has to be a deal on the budget. Even though, as you said everybody is headed in another direction. I think the budget stuff will set a series of deals. I think republicans will let democrats confirm a bunch of people, which will show the progress that the president would like. I will bet you 100 on the tax breaks. When they are in the room doing the budget deals not always, but i am
John, if this deadlock . Is deadlock in this lame duck all but guaranteed . My seuss is off. That is a good holiday thing. Deadlock is all but guaranteed. After the election there was a little bit of getting along, but i do not think it is going to happen. And the immigration thing poison the well on the tax extenders deal. You could see the republicans were just there, and in the immigration thing, the deal blew up. That was a deal that was close to getting done with bipartisan support. The logic and flow points to what you are saying. I think to geologic to qlogic contrary to logic. There has to be a deal on the next couple of weeks. Even though, as you said everybody is headed in another direction. I think republicans will let democrats confirm a bunch of people, which will show the progress that the president would like. I will bet you 100 on the tax breaks. When they are in the room doing the budget deals not always but i am telling you, we have seen lameduck session before. Going
Good afternoon, everybody. Im mark kennedy, the director of the graduate school here at George Washington university, and we welcome everyone here from George Washington university to our panel on digital complaints, 2012 and beyond. We give a special welcome to our cspan audience thats joining us. We also give a special welcome to those from the American Political Science Association that have come to all day seminars here in advance of their conference study tomorrow. At the graduate school of political management, we are very pleased that one of George Washingtons trustees, Mark Shenkman who is with us here today has funded a series of research an digital campaigning. As weve all seen, the world in all aspects of our life is going more digital and we want to make sure that our students are at the forefront of understanding how you apply big data for political success. So todays seminar is very timely. Im very pleased to be collaborating with this with the school of media and Public
Good afternoon, everybody. Im mark kennedy, the director of the graduate school here at George Washington university, and we welcome everyone here from George Washington university to our panel on digital complaints, 2012 and beyond. We give a special welcome to our cspan audience thats joining us. We also give a special welcome to those from the American Political Science Association that have come to all day seminars here in advance of their conference study tomorrow. At the graduate school of political management, we are very pleased that one of George Washingtons trustees, Mark Shenkman who is with us here today has funded a series of research an digital campaigning. As weve all seen, the world in all aspects of our life is going more digital and we want to make sure that our students are at the forefront of understanding how you apply big data for political success. So todays seminar is very timely. Im very pleased to be collaborating with this with the school of media and Public