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CSPC, National Leaders Propose Bipartisan Solutions to Overcome Partisan Divide and Address the Nation's Toughest Challenges

Part of the Strengthening America's Future Initiative (SAFI), Report Offers Strategic Framework

For Congress, the Administration and the American people

WASHINGTON, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As poll numbers continue to indicate that the American people are fed up with partisanship in Washington, today, some of our nation's preeminent experts joined the Center for the Study of the President and Congress (CSPC) to unveil recommendations to remedy the difficult challenges that Congress and the Administration are facing.

The report, "Prosperity or Decline? Breaking Washington's Deadlock To Save America's Future," states that "Washington is broken" and calls for bipartisan solutions to identify the critical challenges that face the United States, and to develop a roadmap for regaining our strategic and financial freedom of action. Without addressing our fiscal health and pivoting our focus to strategically plan and invest in our future generations, our nation will fail to stay competitive and provide sustainable prosperity and security.

"Voters are demanding, in an unprecedented way, that their representatives break through the partisan deadlock and save their children's future," said David Abshire, President and CEO of CSPC. "SAFI was designed to find that common ground and educate lawmakers on moving towards it."

The two panels featured SAFI Co-Chairs David Walker, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, former Colorado Governor Roy Romer, former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine, along with former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former Ambassador and U.S. Trade Representative, Carla Hills, Dr. C. Fred Bergsten, President of the Peterson Institute of International Economics, and Pulitzer-prize winning author, Dr. Dan Yergin.

"We find ourselves at a critical crossroads, where tough choices will and must be made to determine whether our future will be greater than our past," said Walker. "This report provides the country with the answers it has been looking for to get back on a track to fiscal sustainability."

For the last 18 months, CSPC has been conducting a bipartisan comprehensive study, SAFI, to help tackle the same issues with which Congress and the Administration have been struggling. CSPC put these issues in front of our bipartisan group of luminaries and these recommendations demonstrate that bipartisan solutions can be found and government can work if politicians can set aside partisanship and work together.

SOURCE The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress