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e. The Progressive Policy Institute ( PPI) is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3) organization that serves as a public policy think tank in the United States. The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) founded it in 1989. [1] The Washington Post has described it as "a centrist Democratic institution." [2]
Steny Hamilton Hoyer ( / ˈstɛni ˈhɔɪər / STEN-ee HOY-ər; born June 14, 1939) is an American politician and retired attorney who has served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district since 1981. He also served as House Majority Leader from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. Hoyer first attained office ...
Third Way is a Washington, D.C. –based public policy think tank founded in 2005. [3] It develops and advocates for policies that it says represent "modern center-left ideas". [4] In 2013, Third Way was awarded as the North American Think Tank of the Year by Prospect. [5]
Barack Obama, the 44th president (2009–2017) New Democrats, also known as centrist Democrats, Clinton Democrats or moderate Democrats, are a centrist ideological faction within the Democratic Party in the United States. As the Third Way faction of the party, they are seen as culturally liberal on social issues while being moderate or fiscally ...
When the newcomers joined incumbents Kassebaum and Mikulski in January 1993, headline-writers described the occurrence as "The Year of the Woman." In response, Senator Mikulski said, "Calling 1992 the Year of the Woman makes it sound like the Year of the Caribou or the Year of the Asparagus. We're not a fad, a fancy, or a year." [1]
Andrew Martin Kamarck (died 3 March 2010) was an American economist, Director of the Economic Development Institute at the World Bank and Regents Professor at University of California, Los Angeles . In 1936, Kamarck got his BA summa cum laude at Harvard University. [1] In 1951, he got his Ph.D at Harvard. [1]
ITK hears that Hoyer has known Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the director of its Center for Effective Public Management, for many years, and the pair recently reconnected.
The National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) was a U.S. government reform initiative launched in 1993 by Vice President Al Gore. Its goal was to make the federal government "work better, cost less, and get results Americans care about". [1] The initiative aimed to streamline processes, cut bureaucracy, and implement innovative ...