Engendering america, and most recently relentless reformer, Josephine Roche and progressivism in 20th Century America, published in 2015. That book is available for purchase in signing after the session. It is on that subject, Josephine Roche, we will hear from robyn muncy today. Robyn . Thank you so much to christian and eric and the Woodrow Wilson center for inviting me to speak and thank you to amanda and peter for taking care of the logistics. Im delighted by the opportunity to launch this biography of Josephine Roche at the Wilson Center because i spent an absolutely glorious year of fellowship here in 20072008. Came back in the summer of 2009, spent that summer is a Public Policy scholar. It feels really good to bring this finally completed work to an institution that did so much to nurture it. I thought i would begin by explaining how it happened that i spent a decade of my life researching and writing the biography of a woman nobody has ever heard of. [laughter] it all started
Reformer, Josephine Roche and progressivism in 20th Century America, published in 2015. That book is available for purchase and signing outside these doors after the session. It is on that subject, Josephine Roche, we will hear from robyn muncy today. Robyn . Thank you so much to christian and eric and the Woodrow Wilson center for inviting me to speak and thank you to amanda and peter for taking care of the logistics. Im delighted by the opportunity to launch this biography of Josephine Roche at the Wilson Center because i spent an absolutely glorious year of fellowship here in 20072008. Came back in the summer of 2009, because i could not get enough, spent that summer as a Public Policy scholar. It feels really good to bring this finally completed work to an institution that did so much to nurture it. I thought i would begin by explaining how it happened that i spent a decade of my life researching and writing the biography of a woman nobody has ever heard of. [laughter] it all start
Reformer, Josephine Roche and progressivism in 20 Century America, published in 2015. That book is available for purchase in signing after the session. It is on that subject, Josephine Roche, we will hear from robyn muncy today. Robyn . Thank you so much to christian and eric and the Woodrow Wilson center for inviting me to speak and thank you to amanda and peter for taking care of the logistics. Im delighted by the opportunity to launch this biography of Josephine Roche at the Wilson Center because i spent an absolutely glorious year of fellowship here in 20072008. Came back in the summer of 2009, spent that summer is a Public Policy scholar. It feels really good to bring this finally completed work to an institution that did so much to nurture it. I thought it would begin by explaining how its happened that i spent a decade of my life researching and writing the biography of a woman nobody has ever heard of. [laguughter] it all started early in the 21st century when i was putting tog
Tonight on the communicators at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. President obama recently said his proposed 2015 federal budget to congress for review. In light of its release and the debates that followed, booktv presents portions of author talks on the federal budget process. In the next hour use eclipse with philip joyce, author of the Congressional Budget Office. David wessel, author of red ink inside the highstakes politics of the federal budget, and oklahoma senator tom coburn, author of the debt bomb and breach of trust. We begin with philip joyce author of the Congressional Budget Office honest numbers, power, and policymaking. The former cbo analyst and current professor of management, finance and leadership at the university of maryland recounts the formation of the Congressional Budget Office in 1974. Its internal operation and the nonpartisan economic and budget information it provides to congress. When was the cbo form . It was formed in 1974. It was, in fact, a reaction to some
Book tv brings you portions of talks about the budget. We start with philip with joyce of the American Association for budget analysis. In his book the Congressional Budget Office he gives a history and says its nonpartisan communication to congress and the public has been crucial in the creation of the political agenda. Has it been used as a political football in the past . The one thing you can say about organizations that produce information is that they cannot make anybody use that information. They cant even make anybody interpret that information accurately. So whoever it is that might be a support your opponent of a particular policy can clearly use a cost estimate for example to say that this is a bad policy or a good policy that happened for example in the Clinton Health care reform in 1993 and 1994 cbo came up with an estimate that said the Clinton Health care reform rather than saving money which the Clinton Administration said would cause money that was only one of aspects