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Matthew Matthew  "The Interior Department too often has been seen as an appendage of commercial interests as opposed to a place where the values and interests of the American people are served ... what I want to put an end to is an Interior Department that sees its job as simply sitting back waiting for whoever has most access in Washington to extract what they want ... that's going to change under Ken Salazar."

- Barack Obama, 12/17/2008
  kevin kevin  @Matthew -- time to feature social security on the front page?
Matthew Matthew  From Nicholas Calio's Citigroup bio: "The New York Times described him as a 'forceful broker…not only between the White House and Congress, but also among Cabinet officials…' and 'credit[ed] him with a major role in the biggest White House legislative victories on Capitol Hill, among them the resolution authorizing use of force against Iraq, the creation of the Homeland Security Department, an education bill and a major tax cut.' Congressional Quarterly reported that 'lawmakers of both parties also say Calio's forceful approach ...helped Bush put together a string of triumphs on Capitol Hill.' http://www.citigroup.com/citi/corporatego...
Matthew Matthew  Kent Conrad gets deficit advice from Rubin: "The former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, who I think has, from all observers, gotten very high grades for the economic policy that he pursued as secretary of the treasury under the Clinton years, has called me several times in the last years warning about his concern about the long-term growth of debt and what it could mean for interest rates." http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/p...
Matthew Matthew  A recent Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget study of the responses of various countries to large deficits concluded, "International experience seems to argue for fiscal turnaround packages that are heavily weighted toward spending cuts, although there are examples where tax increases had a positive impact." http://crfb.org/document/fiscal-turnaroun...
Matthew Matthew  Debt Commission member Alice Rivlin is a board member of Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget along with Reischauer, Peterson, Steuerle, and Walker
Matthew Matthew  @sundin the Harvard Corporation is the name of the seven-member governing body of the university, also known as the "President and Fellows of Harvard College". Harvard Management Company is the firm responsible for investing Harvard's endowment. It answers to the Corporation and is often overseen by members of the Corporation, for example James F Rothenberg and Drew G Faust
Matthew Matthew  The Social Security Looters research group is growing -- welcome @Rogue, @sundin, @leia, @Champ119, and @gene!
Matthew Matthew  Social Security Looters: Ann M Fudge, one of Obama's appointees to the Debt Commission, is on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, which is currently co-chaired by Rubin and previously by Peterson
Matthew Matthew  One of the funniest Social Security privatization propaganda ideas I've come across: "With a $325,000 inaugural grant from the Peter G Peterson Foundation, the National Academy of Public Administration and PETLab, a joint initiative of Parsons The New School for Design and the nonprofit Games for Change, will develop a "Big Fiscal Game" to be played on the physical space of college campuses around the country. The game, designed to be played by 30 to 500 students at a time, will educate them about the extent and causes of the country's looming fiscal crisis, and will model the policy and budget trade-offs involved."
Matthew Matthew  Erskine B Bowles was called "Corporate America's friend in the White House" in a 1998 BusinessWeek article (http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnfla...), which noted his commitment to entitlement reform: "Bowles has been adamant about finding a bipartisan, long-term fix for the financial problems of both Medicare and Social Security."
  rjgwood rjgwood  @Matthew Love the site! Thanks for setting this up....will be definitely talking to some groups that I know to help w/ this fabulous project!
Matthew Matthew  bubblebarons Hello to everyone on the training call! Thanks for joining!
  Priscilla Priscilla  @Matthew
I tried that and kept getting an incorrect dial tone.
Matthew Matthew  @Priscilla You have to call into the conference number for audio!
  Dan Dan  @kevin @Matthew Given the donor matching system, does it help or hurt to add middle initials when adding a person? For example (hypothetical), would it better to add Ian P. Freely or just Ian Freely? Does the Open Secrets search for matching donors include the middle initial or no? Also it's clear you want to have as complete a bio as possible in order to utilize the donor match function - correct?
Matthew Matthew  bubblebarons I'm not sure who asked about the healthcare industry on the training call today, but it turns out that Merck and Biogen executive Peter N Kellogg is not the Bubble Baron Peter R Kellogg
  kevin kevin  @rdhyee we don't have plans to integrate that on the view yet, though it would make sense. perhaps a link like "Laura Tyson - Dean (thru Haas Business School)" could show up on UC's page? @Matthew - what do you think?
  kevin kevin  To all obamaadmin analysts (@joshmumm, @Bob, @kevin, @Matthew, @Destructor, @ahier, @Priscilla, @Aleinad, @sundin, @leia):

The Obama White House visitors list is really shaping up! We are at 146 names, and it includes visitors to many of the top officials in the White House -- the President, Larry Summers, Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, Nancy-Ann DeParle.

Let's shoot for 200 (though the list can continue to be updated). If you need more names, let me know.

We are rolling out an awesome new tool for bulk adding at the end of this month -- you all will be some of the first to test-drive it.
Matthew Matthew  Amid protests, University of California Board of Regents voted to raise tuition by 32% -- who are these people? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/educati...