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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 | 130

Payroll Tax Situation Won’t Be Resolved Until Next Week

Dec 21, 2011| 

I haven’t yet seen a good scenario for how the stalemate between the House and Senate on the payroll tax extension will play out. The most common thought was... Read »

Why Wasn’t Last Week’s 30% Reduction In The Deficit Big News?

Dec 19, 2011| 1

I have to admit that I didn’t notice it either when the Treasury last week showed that the fiscal 2012 deficit could be almost 30 percent lower than the deficit... Read »

What Does It Mean For House Republicans To Be In “Full Revolt” On Payroll Tax Cut?

Dec 18, 2011| 

Politico reported this morning that the House GOP rank-and-file are in “full revolt” over the payroll tax cut bill the Senate passed yesterday and that... Read »

Budget Process Nonsense from Paul Ryan

Dec 9, 2011| 

This would be funny if it weren’t so sad in so many ways: House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has proposed a series of changes in the congressional... Read »

Will Obama Specify Sequester Cuts In His 2013 Budget?

Dec 4, 2011| 

Here’s the question I’ve been asked most often over the past week: Will the White House include in it’s fiscal 2013 budget — the one it will... Read »

Tax Reform: Not Till 2014 At The Earliest

Nov 30, 2011| 

I’m wading into Bruce’s and Pete’s territory here: Because of the failure of the anything-but-super committee to come up with a plan that included... Read »

Shutdown This Weekend Not Out of the Question

Nov 17, 2011| 

The current continuing resolution expires at midnight Friday and, if it’s not extended, there will be a government shutdown. The current plan appears to be to... Read »

Wall Street Doesn’t Seem To Be Exepcting Much From The Not-So-Super Committee

Nov 12, 2011| 

One of the factors that has been leading some to predict that the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (aka, the super committee) will come up with a deficit... Read »

Tea Partiers Want A New Dollar Coin and Refuse to Listen to the Free Market in the Process

Sep 28, 2011| 4

Over at TPM, Ryan Reilly has an intriguing post about the interest of some tea partiers for a new circulating dollar coin because it supposedly will save the federal... Read »

Boehner, Cantor In Big Trouble After Big CR Defeat

Sep 22, 2011| 

House Democrats last night didn’t do what they have done so many times before since the 2010 election: they didn’t provide the House leadership with... Read »

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