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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

Obama Budget Plan: Changing The Debate Without Changing The Likely Outcome

Apr 14, 2011| 

As the very quick negative response yesterday from the House GOP showed, the White House was never going to get even a reluctant, grudging admission from the Republicans... Read »

The Shutdown Problem This September is Going to be Even Worse

Apr 8, 2011| 1

No matter what happens today with the government shutdown, the situation is going to be even more difficult this September when the House, Senate, and White House... Read »

The Five Main Shutdown Questions For This Week Are…

Apr 5, 2011| 

As you hear about developments this week towards an agreement on FY2011 spending or a government shutdown, keep asking yourself these questions: Can John Boehner... Read »

Bernanke Press Conferences Are More Significant Than The New York Times Says

Mar 28, 2011| 

This story in yesterday’s New York Times by Binyamin Appelbaum about how Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke now plans to hold regular press conferences... Read »

Attention Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: This Letter is Anything But Thrilling

Mar 21, 2011| 

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said in a press release last week that this letter to the president from 64 U.S. senators calling for comprehensive... Read »

The New Bloomberg Poll on the Budget: Confusion Reigns

Mar 9, 2011| 

Click on the logo to see the poll I teased about in a post yesterday. It’s from Bloomberg and, contrary to what House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has been... Read »

Why Would Anyone Want To Be An AT&T Wireless Customer?

Mar 6, 2011| 14

The saying used to be that you never go to war with someone who prints ink by the barrel.  The modern day version of that must be “Never go to war with... Read »

Newt’s Revisionist Budget History

Feb 28, 2011| 

I can’t really fault former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) too much for his attempt in Friday’s edition of The Washington Post to revise budget history... Read »

Is A Government Shutdown Inevitable?

Feb 16, 2011| 

I’ve been taking some serious grief from others in the federal budgeting community because of my now months-old prediction that a government shutdown was... Read »

When Will the Demand for a New Corn Federal Tax Break Begin?

Feb 11, 2011| 

Like most people who follow the federal budget closely, I tend to see federal spending and taxing implications in almost everything. Political unrest in Egypt ... Read »

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