bob reischauer, i'm going to ask you to kick this off. >> thank you very much, judy. i think of some of you know i spent most of my career analyzing federal budget policy and entitlements like social security. so you might wonder what i'm doing sitting up here among child policy experts rather than sitting down where i should be, among you learning. well, the answer to that question is that about a month and half ago olivia came into my office and said that she thought the institute should sponsor a focus on a question, you know, what's happening to children as a national priority as we grapple with current fiscal problems, both short run, economic weakness, and the long run, fiscal sustainability. i thought this was really a great opportunity, and i told her that when people asked me the question of what's the biggest challenge facing this nation, rather than saying something about taxes or budgets or health care, i always say really i think it's making sure the children of today will be the productive citizens and workers of tomorrow. so i jumped at the chance to pa

reischauer. he was the director of the congressional budget office. bob is one of two public trustees of the social security and medical trust fund. he brings that experience to bear in his observations. moving on to my right is jim kolbe, a senior trans-atlantic fellow of the marshall fund of the united states. he served in the u.s. house of representatives from 1985 to 2007, representing the tucson, arizona, area. he was on the appropriations committee for 20 years and 20two of its subcommittees. the next panelist is margaret simms, an institute fellow and a director of its low-income working family project. she was vice president for economic governance for the joint economic studies. one more panelists is coming, ray scheppach. let's get started by hearing for a few minutes from three of analysts to put their ideas out there and then we will discuss what they said and hear from our other panelists afterwards. bob reischauer, i want to ask you to kick this off. >> thank you very much. i have spent most of my career analyzing federal budget policies and

my second point would be to get bob reischauer to write an op-ed to get my internet pass. last not >> take 30 seconds before i do. i am told you are working on initiative developing a next generation of policy leaders. what do you say to the next generation about how they should be thinking about this? [laughter] >> a public sector is still the most fascinating career i think. the challenges and the partisan nature is much more difficult. you got to analysis and stay up and push it and don't be pushed away so much by the politics. >> that is connected to wetware talking about here. bought reischauer can you get the final word. >> my final word was going to be all of the above that i write an op-ed. so we can solve that. i think we are going to have to spend more money, but we can't spend any more money until we've restructured the institution and create new institutions to do this and particularly how it focused on younger children. >> as we look specifically to the super committee, which we hope for coming out of bair for children? >> that they don't do too much damage. >

bob reischauer, i'm going to ask you to kick this off. cannot thank you earn much, judy.g a pure sitting along the child policy experts rather than sitting down for a should be among the learning. to answer that question is about a month and a half ago, olivia came into my office and said she thought the institute should sponsor and focus the attention on what's happening as we grapple with our current fiscal problems, both economic weakness on long-run fiscal unsustainability. i thought this was really a great opportunity and i told her that when people ask me the questions of what's the biggest challenge facing this nation rather than saying something about taxes or badges or health care. i always say really i think it's making sure children of today will be the productive citizens and workers of tomorrow. so i jumped the chance to participate in this and of course as president take a certain ability to propel myself from the audience that i'm in right now. i'll let you know a whole lot of the policies have focused on how to get the economy growing again, how to boost i