the first is two georgetown university press, which is a co-sponsor for this event, and the second is to the house budget committee for lets us use their hearing room. it is indeed an appropriate forum for the discussion of the deficit and the debt. i don't have to spend much time talking about why this is a timely topic. we were treated to a near government shutdown earlier this year and by early august, necessary for the federal government to increase the country's debt limit in order to prevent a default on the debt. in the longer term, the levels of debt are unsustainable make k imperative something be done about them. there appears to be little con consensus what, when, and by whom. to help address the questions, we have a panel of experts who are each on everybody's short list of go-to people on the topic of the federal budget. indeed, this is one of many things they have in common, not only are they all among the nation's most accomplished economists, but together they constitute half of the individuals who have been directer of the congressional budget office. cbo, as most eve

the first is to georgetown university press, which is a co-sponsor for this event. the second is the house budget committee for letting us use the hearing room. it is indeed inappropriate forum for discussion of the debt and deficit. we were treated to a near- government shut down earlier this year. by early august it will be necessary for the federal government to increase the country's debt limit in order to present an end president did level of the dutch. the that -- the levels are unsustainable, making it imperative that something be done about them. there appears to be little consensus by what, by when, and by whom. to help us address these questions, we have a list of panelists to our go-to people. indeed, this is one of many things they have in common. not only are they among the nation's most accomplished economist, but together they constitute half of the individuals that have been directors of the cbo. cbo as most everyone knows and most everyone in the country has its founding in 1975 become the source of objective analysis of federal budget issues and a

the first is to georgetown university prez -- press which is a co-sponsor and the house budget committee for lets us use their hearing room. it's an appropriate forum for the discussion about debt. i don't have to spend much time why this is a timely talking. we were treated to a near government shutdown. by early august, it will be necessary to increase the debt limit, in order to prevent the unprecedented default in the debt. in longer term, of course, the levels of debt that we have are unsustainable, making it imperative that something be done about them. there appears to be consensus on what, when, and by whom. to help us address the questions, we have a channel of experts who are each on the short list of the go-to people on the topic of federal budget. this is one of many things they have in common. not only are all they among the most accomplished economist. together they constitute half of the individuals who have been directorred of the congressional budget office. cbo and most everyone knows and indeed most everyone in the country, has sent the founding become the source of ob

the first is to georgetown university press, which is a co-sponsor for this event. the second is the house budget committee for letting us use the hearing room. it is indeed inappropriate forum for discussion of the debt and deficit. we were treated to a near- government shut down earlier this year. by early august it will be necessary for the federal government to increase the country's debt limit in order to present an end president did level of the dutch. the that -- the levels are unsustainable, making it imperative that something be done about them. there appears to be little consensus by what, by when, and by whom. to help us address these questions, we have a list of panelists to our go-to people. indeed, this is one of many things they have in common. not only are they among the nation's most accomplished economist, but together they constitute half of the individuals that have been directors of the cbo. cbo as most everyone knows and most everyone in the country has its founding in 1975 become the source of objective analysis of federal budget issues and a

pressed thank you so much for your time appreciate it as christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university. well still ahead on r.t. it's a mystery that has scientists all over the world stumped germany's deadly e. coli outbreak continues to rage but it will still go. anonymous source that's i guess not that our next guest had a clue. r g is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. well the deadly e. coli outbreak in germany has clean nearly forty lives to date sickening more than three thousand four hundred people and the outbreak has already been called the world's largest recall the world health organization says that infections are spreading and spreading to european countries as well as canada and even the united states but unfortunately the source of the outbreak has actually baffled scientists they're still trying to figure out the evolution of the deadly strain very different from other equally strains and moreover the uncertainty has actually led to a lot of questions about whether w