The Congressional Budget Office, whose views on this issue fall squarely between the optimists' and the pessimists', estimates that it's likely to reduce the budget deficit by about $1 trillion in its second decade — when the cost-containment measures have had time to pay dividends.
To date, most studies addressing this attitudinal self-selection issue fall into seven categories: direct questioning, statistical control, instrumental variables models, sample selection models, joint discrete choice models, structural equations models, and longitudinal designs.
Pettit died suddenly on May 31; Guthrie did not let the issue fall, but queried Pettit's replacement, James Ross Snowden, concerning the issue on June 7.
The next issue was Spring 1954, and the magazine stayed on a quarterly schedule from then until the last issue, Fall 1955.
He broke a promise to back a bill in his first year in office, and, amid concerns about his party's chances in the 2010 midterm election, let the issue fall behind other priorities.
The surveillance programs at issue fall into two categories: The collection of metadata on all American phone calls under the Patriot Act, and the snooping of electronic communications targeted at foreigners under a 2007 surveillance law.
