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Stan Collender

Affiliation: Qorvis Communications

Stan Collender is a former New Yorker who, after getting a degree from the University of California, Berkeley, moved to Washington to get it out of his system. That was more than 30 years ago.

During most of his career, Collender has worked on the federal budget and congressional budget process, including stints on the staff of the House and Senate Budget Committees; founding the Federal Budget Report, a newsletter that was published for almost two decades; and for the past 11 years writing a weekly column for NationalJournal.com and now RollCall.com.

He is currently a managing director for Qorvis Communications, where he spends most of his time working with and for financial services clients.

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Stan Collender's Latest Articles | 46

The 2009 and 2010 Deficits Are Indeed Triumphs

Mar 18, 2010| 

I’ve been saying for a while that, contrary to the GOP rhetoric that the sky is falling, the 2009 and 2010 deficits were and are the absolutely correct fiscal... Read »

This Is Just Silly

Feb 18, 2010| 

Over at Political Wire, Taegan Goddard reports that a legislator in South Carolina wants to go back to the way it was when the Articles of Confederation rather than... Read »

Question Time in the U.S. Not Likely

Feb 7, 2010| 

Bruce raises a number of interesting points in his post on whether having a regular question time of the president by Congress similar to the questions asked of... Read »

Republican Senator Shelby Demands Earmarks and Embarasses the GOP in the Process

Feb 5, 2010| 

I need to rant on this one. I was going to use a “This Is Just Silly” headline, but it’s not silly: If it’s true, it’s infuriating... Read »

The Greenspan Commission Failed

Jan 20, 2010| 

What is most commonly known as The Greenspan Commission — the group created by Ronald Reagan to deal with Social Security that was chaired by Alan Greenspan... Read »

How Verizon and AT&T Stopped Me from Buying a New Phone

Jan 18, 2010| 8

I’m interrupting our usual discussions on mostly macro issues to tell a very personal and extremely frustrating micro story about how I ended up not buying... Read »

Will 2011 Budget Be Released Before the State of the Union?

Jan 13, 2010| 

By now, the choreography used by a White House when it releases the president’s budget is almost standard. It starts with the State of the Union Address the... Read »

Lowenstein Advises Homeowners to Just Walk Away

Jan 10, 2010| 4

An interesting article opinion piece in today’s New York Times Magazine says that it’s okay for a homeowner to walk away from a mortgage if his or her... Read »

Is the White House Going to Propose a Presidential Budget Commission?

Jan 7, 2010| 

There are some rumblings, all of which are completely unconfirmed at this point, that the White House is going to propose a budget commission when the president... Read »

Obama 2010 Budget Plan Sneak Preview

Jan 6, 2010| 

This op-ed piece from John Podesta and Michael Ettinger in yesterday’s Financial Times provides a good idea of what to expect this year from the Obama administration... Read »

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