alice rivlin is next to me. i get to see this one more time because hillary clinton has not been elected president -- i hope she is soon. that is my own view. alice rivlin remains to be the most accomplished woman in political life in our history. she is the founding director of the congressional budget office, she was the vice chairman of the federal reserve board. one some people would have called it a career after that, interspersed in that were many positions and brookings. when she retired from the fed, she helped d.c. fix its finances. she remains one of our most distinguished and eloquent voices on all matters about the economy and certainly the federal budget. after bob has talked about this issue of the overseas contingency operations, then we will get into a broader discussion about the federal budget policy and federal economic policy and the future of our country. that is what it is all about in the end. one more thing before beginning with a broad question. by the way, i will also do a quick adverti

alice rivlin sitting next to me. because hillary clinton has not yet been elected president, i hope she will be soon, but until she is, if she is, alice in my mind remains the most accomplished woman in american political life in our history. she is a founding director of the congressional budget office. of the a vice-chairman federal reserve board and when some people would have called it a career after all of that aterspersed with time brookings when she was writing about important issues. when she retired from the fed, she decided to help pc fix its findings as her retirement pleasure. she remains one of our most distinguished and eloquent voices on all matters regarding the economy and certainly the federal budget. startedb gets us talking about the specific issues, we will then get into a broader discussion about federal budget policy and federal economic policy and the future of our country. that is what it is all about. i will say one more thing begin -- before beginning with a broad question to bob. i will als

the foundation was laid with a lot of writing from charles murray, alice rivlin, harry meade, a lot of people, and i think we all kind of got together and i was -- obviously i was a second term congressman. i did not deal directly with the administration. it was mostly republicans in the house, but we talked about clay, but santorum and camp and nancy johnson and tim hutchinson -- there are so many names. people were really trying to figure out what would work. from our perspective on the republican side, and i think a lot of democrats felt this way, too -- the two best anti-poverty programs that have gotten americans out of poverty for generation our work and marriage basically. what we have done is hinge assistance to poor people are >> "washington journal" continues. that's an oversimplification, but we felt that was the problem and we wanted to fix it. so many policies never got off the ground cause of cbo or omb. ok? i'm sorry if you work for one of those organizations. this is an example. when we did the community renewal act, which was the follow-up to this, and the president si

i will say candidly the leaders for the project are senator daschle, senator frist and alice rivlin and tommy thompson. win with a discussion about these issues it's so difficult. when the question of were trying to find ways to help support family members, and if you look within the existing system of care, could you allow an individual, could you allow a plan, for example, to provide support for a family caregiver? there is the issue of come as you know i'm sure the labor laws that have recently come out with respect to reimbursement. it seems like there are so few easy answers out there and we're really struggling with them and looking at them to try to strike the appropriate balance by making sure that there is an appropriate number of caregivers. but at the same time that the see of laying out existing care which is a difficult, so much of a long-term services support that are provide our provide out of pocket i family members. the consequence of trying to pay for that and by that out seems almost overwhelming to policymakers. if you have some great suggestions, we would love to he