Subject: November 2011 BPC Bulletin
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Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:29:20 -0600

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BPC Expands Efforts to Housing Policy

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/press-releases/2011/10/bipartisan-policy-center-launches-new-commission-address-future-us-housi 
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On October 26, BPC announced the launch of a bipartisan 
http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/projects/housing 
Housing Commission  that will address the long-term challenges facing a struggling housing sector. Former U.S. Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros and Mel Martinez, and former U.S. Senators Kit Bond and George Mitchell, a BPC co-founder, will lead the effort.

Since the housing bubble burst in 2006, the wealth of American homeowners has fallen by more than $9 trillion, or nearly 40 percent. The strength of the housing industry has a substantial impact on our economic recovery, affecting consumer spending, homebuilding, banking and local tax revenues.  

The Commission's final recommendations will be released in early 2013 for consideration by the administration and Congress.

Moderator Rick Lazio (left) joins Housing 

Commission Co-Chairs (left to right) Martinez, 

Cisneros, Bond and Mitchell at a press 

conference at BPC

News Coverage and Featured Blog Posts

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/articles/2011/11/bill-clinton-fixing-housing-crisis-helps-add-jobs 
Bill Clinton: Fixing housing crisis helps add jobs 

POLITICO, November 1, 2011

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/articles/2011/10/too-late-fix-housing-mess-housing-commissions-cisneros-msnbc 
VIDEO: Too late to fix housing mess? 

Interview with Henry Cisneros, MSNBC, October 28, 2011

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/articles/2011/10/bipartisan-housing-commission-launches-goal-2013 
Bipartisan Housing Commission Launches With Goal for 2013 

National Journal, October 26, 2011

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/housing/blog/post/senator-corker-lauds-housing-commission 
Senator Corker Lauds Housing Commission 

Housing Commission Blog, October 26, 2011

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/housing/blog/post/real-housing-reform-demands-open-minds-bipartisan-consensus 
Kit Bond: Housing Reform Demands Open Minds, Bipartisan Consensus  

Housing Commission Blog, October 26, 2011

Domenici and Rivlin Urge Super Committee to Craft Grand Deal on Debt

Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs Erskine Bowles (left) and Alan Simpson testify with BPC's Alice Rivlin and Pete Domenici

BPC's Recommendations Target Economic Growth, Savings and Debt Reduction

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/press-releases/2011/11/bipartisan-policy-center%E2%80%99s-pete-domenici-and-alice-rivlin-warn-fiscal-ca 
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In testimony before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
on November 1, former Senator Pete Domenici and Dr. Alice Rivlin, co-chairs of BPC's 
http://click.bipartisanpolicycenteremail.org/?qs=ebd719d7466d23ec71f18548e246e3f0926f72aeb8449b6b50a2d9469af3e2ec 
Debt Reduction Task Force , encouraged
the Committee to change the course of economic history for the better. 

"To achieve success the Committee will have to go well beyond the
minimum charge of identifying of $1.2-1.5 trillion in savings over the next
ten years, because even savings of this magnitude would leave the debt rising
faster than the economy can grow," said Dr. Rivlin.

http://click.bipartisanpolicycenteremail.org/?qs=ebd719d7466d23ecfd49d6aff386b1c375d66dae9ba7ee5eb621ada7c000cc2f 
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Press Highlights

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/articles/2011/11/deficit-panel-warned-it-must-not-fail-and-urged-compromise 
Deficit Panel Is Warned That It Must Not Fail and Is Urged to Compromise

The New York Times, November 1, 2011

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/articles/2011/11/no-deal-us-deficit-panel-would-be-dire-experts 
No deal by U.S. deficit panel would be dire: experts

Reuters, November 1, 2011

Photo credit: Melina Mara, The Washington Post

Taking the Poison out of Partisanship

Just weeks before the 2012 presidential caucuses and primaries heat up an already polarized political environment, BPC heads back to New Orleans for its third Annual Political Summit, Taking the Poison out of Partisanship, on November 15 and 16.

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/nola2011 
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Honorary Co-Hosts James Carville and Mary Matalin will be joined by New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Newsweek columnist and CNN contributor John Avlon, CNBC's John Harwood, Walter Isaacson, POLITICO's John Harris, political strategists Kiki McLean and Steve Schmidt, author Richard Wolffe and many more!

If you would like to pose a question to one of our panelists, please leave a note on our 
http://www.facebook.com/BipartisanPolicyCenter 
Facebook wall  or tweet your question to 
http://twitter.com/#!/BPC_Bipartisan 
@BPC_Bipartisan . We are collecting questions in advance, as well as during the event. Be sure to tune into the live webcast, follow our live tweets (#BPCNOLA on Twitter) and read our live blog coverage on November 16 beginning at 11:00AM ET.

October 31, 2011 | Fox Business

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/articles/2011/10/jay-powell-fox-business-if-big-bank-failed-tomorrow-what-would-happen 
If a Big Bank Failed Tomorrow, What Would Happen?

Interview with BPC's Jay Powell 

October 24, 2011 | The Hill

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/articles/2011/10/bipartisan-successes-energy 
Bipartisan successes on energy

By BPC Senior Fellows Byron Dorgan and Trent Lott

October 4, 2011 | The New York Times

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news/articles/2011/10/group-urges-research-aggressive-efforts-fight-climate-change 
Group Urges Research Into Aggressive Efforts to Fight Climate Change
By Cornelia Dean 

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/news 
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | BPC

"On Leadership" Speaker Series: John W. Rowe

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/events/2011/11/leadership-speaker-series 
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Tuesday and Wednesday, November 15-16, 2011
Tulane University | New Orleans, LA

BPC's Third Annual Political Summit: Taking the Poison Out of Partisanship

http://bipartisanpolicy.org/nola2011 
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Washington Marriott at Metro Center

Energy Innovation 2011

http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/events/2011/11/energy-innovation-2011 
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