Bipartisanship will lighten the load of entitlement reform: 'heavy lifting' awaits Congress.(National League of Cities' 1996 Congressional City Conference)
Nation's Cities Weekly, March, 1996 by Ryder, Julianne Ryan
A panel discussion at the 1996 Congressional City Conference addressed the topic of entitlement reform. The panel, moderated by David Gergen, expressed a general agreement on the need for entitlement reform, and that the difficult task will be made easier by cooperation by all concerned.
Characterizing the hard work of reforming entitlements as "the heavy lifting" left for Congress and the President to attend to, panelists at a Congressional City Conference session on the subject discussed the prospects for meaningful reform, a key priority of the National League of Cities for several years running.
With David Gergen moderating, panelists included Mayor Larry Curtis of Ames, Iowa; Concord Coalition Executive Director Martha Phillips; and U.S. Representatives...
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