CHAIRMEN The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Annual Conference BILL FRENZEL JIM NUSSLE The Debt Ceiling, Fiscal Plans, and Market Jitters: TIM PENNY Where Do We Go from Here? CHARLIE STENHOLM PRESIDENT Participants: MAYA MAC GUINEAS • Barry Anderson, Former Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office* • The Honorable Michael Bennet, Senator (D-CO) DIRECTORS • BARRY ANDERSON Ben Bernanke, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board ROY ASH • David Brooks, New York Times Columnist ERSKINE BOWLES • John Burbank, Founder and CIO, Passport Capital CHARLES BOWSHER • STEVE COLL Steve Coll, President and CEO, New America Foundation* DAN CRIPPEN • Carlo Cottarelli, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International VIC FAZIO Monetary Fund WILLIS GRADISON • WILLIAM GRAY , III The Honorable Mike Crapo, Senator (R-ID) WILLIAM HOAGLAND • Governor John Engler, President, Business Roundtable DOUGLAS HOLTZ -EAKIN • The Honorable Bill Frenzel, Co-Chair, Committee for a Responsible Federal JIM JONES LOU KERR Budget and Former Ranking Member, House Budget Committee* JIM KOLBE • Ambassador James Glassman, Founding Executive Director, George W. JAMES MCINTYRE , JR. DAVID MINGE Bush Institute MARNE OBERNAUER , JR. • The Honorable Jim Jones, Former Chairman, House Budget Committee* JUNE O’N EILL • Neel Kashkari, Managing Director, PIMCO PAUL O’N EILL • RUDOLPH PENNER The Honorable Jim Kolbe, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall PETER PETERSON Fund* ROBERT REISCHAUER • Steve Liesman, Senior Economic Reporter, CNBC ALICE RIVLIN • CHARLES ROBB Larry Lindsey, President and CEO, The Lindsey Group and Former MARTIN SABO Director, National Economic Council ALAN K. SIIMPSON • Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal JOHN SPRATT GENE STEUERLE Budget* DAVID STOCKMAN • Ruth Marcus, Opinion Writer, Washington Post JOHN TANNER • Matt Miller, Columnist, Washington Post and Senior Fellow, Center for LAURA TYSON GEORGE VOINOVICH American Progress PAUL VOLCKER • The Honorable Jim Nussle, Co-Chair, Committee for a Responsible Federal CAROL COX WAIT DAVID M. WALKER Budget, Former Director, Office of Management and Budget, and Former JOSEPH WRIGHT , JR. Chairman, House Budget Committee* • Marne Obernauer, Chairman, The Beverage Distributors Company* SENIOR ADVISORS • ELMER STAATS Norm Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute ROBERT STRAUSS • Rudy Penner, Former Director, Congressional Budget Office* • Michael Pond, Managing Director, Barclay’s Capital 1899 L Street NW • Suite 400 • Washington, DC 20036 • Phone: 202-596-3402 • Fax: 202-986-3696 • www.crfb.org • The Honorable Frank Raines, Former Director, Office of Management and Budget • Steve Rattner, Former Principal, Quadrangle Group LLC and Former Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury • Dick Ravitch, Former Lieutenant Governor, New York • Robert Reischauer, President, Urban Institute and Former Director, Congressional Budget Office* • The Honorable Paul Ryan, Chairman, House Budget Committee • The Honorable Alan Simpson, Co-Chair, The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and Former Senator (R-WY)* • Gene Sperling, Director, National Economic Council • Andy Stern, Member, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and Former President, Service Employees International Union • Eugene Steuerle, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute* • Diane Swonk, Chief Economist, Mesirow Financial • The Honorable John Tanner, Former Member (D-TN)* • The Honorable George Voinovich, Former Senator (R-OH)* • Carol Cox Wait, Former President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget* • The Honorable Mark Warner, Senator (D-VA) • The Honorable Vin Weber, Former Member, (R-MN) • The Honorable Peter Welch, Member (D-VT) * Member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget 2 .