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Quotes About The Tour

"This Fiscal Wake-Up Tour I think has been one that has been waking up members of Congress. And you see that in a bipartisan way."
-OMB Director Jim Nussle

“The Fiscal Wake Up Tour is providing a tremendous public service, and is getting a very strong response from around the country”
-Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), Chairman of the Budget Committee

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About The Tour

The Concord Coalition believes that only with an engaged, informed and demanding public can the nation's fiscal challenges be met. The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour's mission is to cut through the usual partisan rhetoric and stimulate a more realistic public dialogue on what we want our nation's future to look like, along with the required trade-offs. We believe that elected leaders in Washington know there is a problem, but they are unlikely to act unless forced to by their constituents. The Tour began as a series of public forums around the country and now, in addition to those forums, we are organizing in-depth local committees to further focus attention on our nation's daunting long-term fiscal challenges... Read More

Participants

The Fiscal Wake Up Tour brings together a group of speakers from diverse perspectives... Read More

Presentations

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