Links to Entitlement (and other) Commissions

Consultant Panel on Social Security, 1975-1976

A friend emails me a list of commissions dealing with Social Security, entitlement reform and other issues, along with links to their reports. This is a very helpful reference for what's come before.

It's unclear what will happen with President Obama's plan to commission a commission on his own rather than rely on stalled Congressional legislation. While I'm generally favorable toward a commission approach, all other options seeming exhausted, it's not clear what chance a presidentially-appointed commission has when Congress has just refused to appoint one itself.

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/reports/hsiao/hsiaoIntro.html

The National Commission on Social Security, 1977-1981

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/reports/80commission.html

National Commission on Social Security Reform (Greenspan Commission), 1981-1983

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/reports/gspan.html

President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission), 1982-1984

http://www.uhuh.com/taxstuff/gracecom.htm

President's Commission on Privatization, 1987-1988

http://openlibrary.org/b/OL2149663M/Report_of_the_President's_Commission_on_Privatization

National Economic Commission, 1987-1989

http://openlibrary.org/b/OL1812227M/National_Economic_Commission

Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform (Kerrey-Danforth Commission), 1993-1995

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/reports/KerreyDanforth/KerreyDanforth.htm

Advisory Council on Social Security, 1994-1996

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/reports/adcouncil/

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Building a Better Future: The Graying of America Project, 1997

http://crfb.org/document/building-better-future-graying-america-project-part-1

President's Commission to Study Capital Budgeting, 1997-1999

http://clinton3.nara.gov/pcscb/

The 21^st Century Retirement Security Plan: The National Commission on Retirement Policy Final Report, Center for Strategic and International Studies,(Gregg-Breaux / Kolbe-Stenholm Commission), 1998-1999

http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/institutes/7/

National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare (Breaux-Thomas Commission), 1998-1999

http://thomas.loc.gov/medicare/index.html

U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission, 1998-2000

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/tdrc/index.html

President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, 2001

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/csss/index.htm

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/reports/pcsss/pcsss.html

President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, 2005

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/taxreformpanel/

Committee for Economic Development, The Emerging Budget Crisis: Urgent Fiscal Choices, 2005

http://www.ced.org/images/library/reports/budget/report_budget2005.pdf

Pew-Peterson Commission on Budget Reform, Red Ink Rising: A Call to Action to Stem the Mounting Federal Debt, 2009

http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_detail.aspx?id=604

Committee on the Fiscal Future of the United States; National Research Council and the National Academy of Public Administration, 2010

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12808