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- EIN 73-1628382
- 202-204-2400
- 1225 Eye Street Nw Ste 1000 Washington DC 20005 USA
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Mission: Too often partisanship poisons our national dialogue. Unfortunately, respectful discourse across party lines has become the exception - not the norm. To confront this challenge, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) was formed to develop and promote solutions that would attract the public support and political momentum to achieve real progress. The BPC acts as an incubator for policy efforts that engage top political figures, advocates, academics and business leaders in the art of principled compromise. In addition to advancing specific proposals, the BPC also is broadcasting a different type of policy discourse that seeks to unite the constructive center in the pursuit of common goals. The Bipartisan Policy Center is a non-profit organization that was established in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell to provide a forum where tough policy challenges can be addressed in a pragmatic and politically viable manner. We seek to develop policy solutions that make sense for the nation and can be embraced by both parties. After reaching shared solutions through principled compromise, we will then work to implement these policies through the political system. The BPC is currently focused on five major issues: national security, health care, energy, agriculture, and transportation. Each of these efforts is led by a diverse team of political leaders, policy experts, business leaders and academics.
Geographic areas served: U.S.A.; International
Programs: Energy - in conjunction with the national association of regulatory utility commissioners, bpc kicked off the year by initiating a series of public workshops. The series explored the environmental and economical impacts of epa's proposed greenhouse gas regulation of existing power plants under the clean air act. The forums gathered epa officials, public-utility commissioners, environmental leaders, power company executives, technology providers, and other experts. Bpc also created the electric grid cybersecurity initiative. The group's report, cybersecurity and the north american electric grid: new policy approaches to address an evolving threat, proposed policies to improve cyber risk management and to build resilience in the event of a cyber attack.
economic policy - the economic policy program includes the economic policy project, the financial regulatory reform initiative, the housing commission, and the immigration task force. Economic policy project: as history shows, when legislators delay raising the debt limit, taxpayers lose billions and the stock market plunges. Bpc released quantitative analysis demonstrating that, absent congressional action, the treasury department would likely be unable to meet its financial obligations by march 14, 2014. Bpc also launched the 20-member commission on retirement security and personal savings, which will release recommendations in 2016 designed to improve the u. S. Retirement system, including social security, disability insurance, defined benefit pensions, defined contribution savings vehicles like 401(k) plans, other personal savings, and strategies to ensure lifetime income. Financial regulatory reform initiative: in 2014, bpc received the burton foundation's regulatory innovation award. According to the burton foundation, bpc's work on too-big-to-fail, the volcker rule, the lincoln amendment, the role of the consumer financial protection bureau, and financial services regulation, "have provided constructive and actionable recommendations that have been lauded by lawmakers from both parties. In an era of intense and often unproductive partisanship, the work of the bipartisan policy center stands out as worthy of recognition. 2014 also marked the anniversary of the dodd-frank act. Bpc released dodd-frank's missed opportunity, which outlined a road map for achieving a more rational and effective financial regulatory architecture over time. Housing commission: the bpc "housing america's future: new directions for national policy" two-day summit was the capstone of bpc's housing commission. For the more than 1,200 attendees, the summit offered an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the housing sector and to interact with an unusually broad array of people and interests. Secretary of housing and urban development (hud) julian castro headlined the summit. Immigration task force: in early 2014, bpc conducted a new assessment, immigration: america's demographic edge. The task force continued work in 2014 to move immigration reform legislation, with public events and statements as well as reports on key aspects of reform.
health - the health program includes the health project, the health innovation initiative, and the nutrition and physical activity initiative. Health project:in june 2014, bpc launched the delivery system reform initiative to help accelerate the transition to higher-value, more coordinated health care payment and delivery systems. Bpc initiated this work with a report, a bipartisan rx for patient-centered care and system-wide cost containment. Health innovation initiative: in september 2014, ceos from some of the nation's largest employers, including the coca-cola company, verizon, and bank of america worked with bpc to form the ceo council on health innovation and to release building better health: innovative strategies from america's business leaders. The consensus report shares the companies' most successful strategies for addressing the nation's most pressing health care challenges. Nutrition and physical activity initiative: bpc teamed up with the american college of sports medicine and the alliance for a healthier generation to develop and present a report, teaching nutrition and physical activity in medical school: training doctors for prevention-oriented care, which recommends training medical students and physicians to combat america's obesity epidemic.