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2013 Fiscal Summit: Facing the Future
America and many countries around the world are changing rapidly. Global competitiveness is increasing as nations improve their economic production and grow more prosperous. Science and technology offer tremendous opportunities for innovation, and those countries that lead technologically will also lead economically. At the same time, America faces a range of evolving challenges at home, including issues such as demographics, immigration, education, and national security.
The 2013 Fiscal Summit gathered some of the country’s most important thinkers to discuss these trends and the critical fiscal policy decisions that will shape America’s economy and society for decades to come. Despite a challenging political environment, the opportunity remains for the U.S. to solve its long-term debt problem and position the nation for future economic success and a continued leadership in the world. While there are still differences of opinion about how to address debt and deficits, the 2013 Fiscal Summit demonstrated that resolving our long-term fiscal challenges is essential to building a foundation for prosperity, growth, and competitiveness in the future.
Participants
President Bill Clinton
Founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States
Bill Gates
Co-Chair and Trustee, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Juan Enriquez
Co-Founder, Synthetic Genomics Inc. and Managing Director, Excel Venture Management
Senator Patty Murray
(D-WA) Chairman, Senate Budget Committee
Representative Paul Ryan
(R-WI) Chairman, House Budget Committee
Representative Chris Van Hollen
(D-MD) Ranking Member, House Budget Committee
Senator Rob Portman
(R-OH) Member, Senate Budget and Finance Committees; Former Member, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
Gene B. Sperling
Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
David Brooks
Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Representative Xavier Becerra
(D-CA) Chairman, House Democratic Caucus
Representative Peter Roskam
(R-IL) House Majority Chief Deputy Whip
Janet Murguía
President and CEO, The National Council of La Raza
Susan Dentzer
Senior Policy Advisor, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Mark McClellan
Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform; Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
Harvey V. Fineberg
President, Institute of Medicine
Admiral Mike Mullen
17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Governor Martin O'Malley
(D-MD) 61st Governor of the State of Maryland
Carly Fiorina
Chairman, Good360
Tamron Hall
Anchor, MSNBC’s NewsNation
Chuck Todd
NBC News Chief White House Correspondent; NBC News Political Director; Host, The Daily Rundown, MSNBC; Contributing Editor, Meet the Press, NBC News
Peter Cook
Chief Washington Correspondent, Bloomberg Television
Julie Rovner
Health Policy Correspondent, NPR
Andrea Mitchell
Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News; Host, Andrea Mitchell Reports, MSNBC