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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

No Talk About the Debt Ceiling or A Shutdown in SOTU

Jan 26, 2011| 

Unless I missed it, the president stayed away from the two big topics that are dominating much of the discussion inside the Beltway these days — the debt... Read »

Of Course Obama Will Call in SOTU for No Earmarks

Jan 25, 2011| 

The early reporting on tonight’s State of the Union Address is that President Obama will call for a complete ban on congressional earmarks. That’s not... Read »

Fall in U.K. GDP Creates Problems for U.S. GOP

Jan 25, 2011| 

Since it was announced last October, the so-called austerity program launched in the U.K. has been repeatedly cited by Republicans as an example of what the United... Read »

More Evidence The Federal Deficit Definitely Is Not A Rational Issue

Jan 21, 2011| 

The latest New York Times/CBS News poll once again shows that feelings about reducing the federal deficit are anything but rational. As Bruce and I have discussed... Read »

More Silliness on the Debt Ceiling and Government Shutdowns

Jan 13, 2011| 1

Over at The Caucus blog at the New York Times, Carl Hulse yesterday posted about a letter from Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Norm Dicks (D-WA) to Defense Secretary... Read »

House GOP Does the Inevitable: Backtracks on Pledge to Cut $100 Billion this Year

Jan 6, 2011| 1

Even if you put the close-to-impossible politics aside, any budget wonk would have told the GOP that for purely technical reasons it was going to be almost impossible... Read »

Possibly Fatal Budget Sickness in Nassau County

Dec 29, 2010| 

See if you don’t lose your lunch by this story by David Halbfinger in the New York Times about the extreme budget problems in Nassau County, New York. In case... Read »

GOP on the Deficit: Do as I Say, Don’t Watch What I Do

Dec 28, 2010| 2

There is now no doubt that all of the GOP talk during the campaign about reducing the deficit was nothing more than a ploy to get elected and that Republicans... Read »

Government Shutdown In December Now Looking Like A Real Option For GOP

Dec 15, 2010| 

I said in early November that it was possible and perhaps even likely that Senate Republicans would consider a government shutdown THIS YEAR. Rather than wait until... Read »

An Earmark Is An Earmark Is An Earmark

Dec 9, 2010| 

Prediction: No matter what the incoming GOP majority has said and wants us to believe, the number and dollar value of earmarks in the next Congress will be at least... Read »

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