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“We don't have a program for the people in the middle,” said Tamar Jacoby, the president of ImmigrationWorks, an advocacy group that's pushing for expanded business visas. This program, she said, would create visas for people who want jobs in food ...

The bigger problem is that Clinton didn't use her stature in the administration to push back against the national security specialists who've dominated foreign policy crafting for years, said Leila Hilal, the head of the Middle East Task Force for the ...

“The U.S. is allowing the Egyptians to take the lead on this because they believe the Egyptians will be pragmatic and can deliver Hamas and won’t contravene Camp David,” said Leila Hilal, who spent years as a legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team and is now director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, a research center in Washington.

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US Budget Watch, a project of the respected bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, projects that three of the four Republican candidates' tax and spending plans would add dramatically to the federal debt. Its analysis looked at the ...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, called that debt stabilization plan "an important first step for putting the country on a sustainable fiscal path."

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Andrew Lebovich, an analyst at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan Washington think tank, says "the public evidence" of collaboration "is too thin to draw that kind of conclusion." "The US and other governments seem pretty convinced, ...

... armies of Washington-watchers used to seeing every budget nuance debated on Capitol Hill, it's crucial to the mission's success, said Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan watchdog group. ...

3 in the leadership, Abu Laith al-Libi in 2008 and Mustafa Abu al-Yazid last year, according to a tally kept by New America Foundation, an independent research organization in Washington. Last month, a drone strike killed al-Qaida's new deputy chief, ...

Arabs believed Obama two years ago when he said he would change Washington and the world, Zogby told a roundtable at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. Now, a stunning majority - as high as 99 percent of those surveyed in ...

An analysis by the New America Foundation, an independent research organization in Washington, shows that 258 drone strikes have taken place in Pakistan since 2004, mostly in Waziristan. They've killed somewhere from 1579 to 2490 people, the foundation ...