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5 Reasons Why “Show Me Your Budget” Is the Perfect Response to the House GOP Debt Ceiling Threat
And One Reason Why It’s Not Perfect By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin, February 2, 2023 Sometimes it seems like every day is Groundhog Day...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Feb 1, 20234 min read
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Lessons From History Tell Us How This Budget Battle May End
Alice Rivlin takes us back to 1982-1983 By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin January 31, 2023 Today we find ourselves in a familiar pattern....
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 31, 20236 min read
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Searching For Integrity Interview With Divided We Fall
John Smith's fascinating podcast Searching for Integrity interviewed Allan Rivlin about Divided We Fall, Zen Politics, the House under...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 31, 20231 min read
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Real Debt Reduction Will Require Bipartisan Negotiations
Our last post argued that the divided and chaotic GOP House has no power to require Democrats to negotiate spending cuts in response to...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 31, 20235 min read
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Why the GOP Can’t Play Games with the US Debt Ceiling
Have you ever had this nightmare? You are behind the wheel of a 1962 Thunderbird hot-rod in a game of “chicken” on a dark street. You are...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 18, 20234 min read
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The Budget Process; Pushed to (and Sometimes Beyond) the Breaking Point
By Alice Rivlin, Sheri Rivlin, and Allan Rivlin With House Republicans calling for a return to “regular order” in passing budget...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 13, 20235 min read
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Gaming Out the Votes for House Speaker
The fact that we even started writing this post is an expression of confidence that this impasse will not soon be resolved. It cannot go...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 5, 20234 min read
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Is a New Supermajority Ruling America?
In 2022 we wrote a book about congressional dysfunction, but the 117th Congress that closed out 2022 with a flurry of bipartisan...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jan 2, 20235 min read
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A Good Bipartisan Lame Duck Deal
President Biden and Congress ended the year with a very good bipartisan budget deal to fund government through the end of the fiscal year...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Dec 31, 20222 min read
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A great Conversation with Andy Gallacher on Stuck in the Middle with Who?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stuck-in-the-middle-with-who/id1634229267
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Dec 13, 20221 min read
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WBAI Lopate At Large with Divided We Fall
Click the image above to got to the Apple Podcast page for Allan Rivlin's interview with Leonard Lopate.
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Dec 12, 20221 min read
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Divided We Fall on Tavis Smiley
https://kbla1580.com/tavis-smiley/?futurishared=6812&station=KBLAAM#.Y4vZE9DD1aY.twitter A great discussion between Allan Rivlin and...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Dec 12, 20221 min read
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Keynote Address: Bipartisan Policy Center
Thank you Bill (Hoagland) and we agree that Alice would feel that this event, and this panel, would feel like a return home to an...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Oct 14, 20227 min read
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What Would Alice Rivlin Say Now?
A partial summary of the Divided We Fall Preface and Afterword by Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin prepared for the Brookings Institution...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Oct 5, 202214 min read
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Divided We Fall (The Book) Q&A With Divided We Fall (The Website)
Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin – President and CEO of Zen Political Research and authors of “Divided We Fall: Why Consensus Matters“...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Sep 27, 20228 min read
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One Word: Bribery
By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin At the start of the impeachment hearings it looked like Democrats had settled on the charge of bribery...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Dec 3, 20194 min read
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Amazon HQ2: Missed Opportunity after Missed Opportunity
Amazon has always seemed to be two steps ahead of the calendar as it built one of the most profitable corporations in the world leaving...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Feb 25, 20196 min read
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The Democrats Big New Idea: Get Stuff Done
After a long hard contest and days of counting ballots, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema has been declared the winner in the Arizona Senate race...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Nov 14, 20188 min read
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Heartland States’ Economies Highlighted in New Brookings Books, Papers, and a Data-Rich Report and T
If newspapers and cable television provide the rough first draft of history, it takes the think tanks about two years to produce the...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Oct 26, 20186 min read
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Every Democratic candidate should have an economic plan
Every Democratic candidate should have an economic plan, and this is especially true for candidates running for office in the parts of...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Aug 13, 20186 min read
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