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The Current and the Citizens League Present "Policy and a Pint: America's Checkbook—Overdrawn" with United States GOA Comptroller General David Walker
March 27, 2007
WHAT: Minnesota Public Radio's The Current™ and The Citizens League will host the next installment of the Policy and a Pint series with Government Accountability Office Comptroller General David Walker. The conversation will focus on Walker's belief that the government spends and borrows too much money, and the debt we are incurring now is as big a threat to our future as terrorism. 89.3 The Current's Steve Seel will host the event.
Walker is the seventh Comptroller General of the United States, who began his 15-year term in 1998. As Comptroller General, Walker is the nation's chief accountability officer and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a legislative branch agency founded in 1921. GAO's mission is to help improve the performance and assure the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people. Over the years, GAO has earned a reputation for professional, objective, fact-based and nonpartisan reviews of government issues and operations.
Walker was recently featured on CBS News' 60 Minutes. Click here to view the report: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/60minutes/main2528226.shtml.
About the Policy and a Pint series
"Policy and a Pint" is an ongoing series co-sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio's The Current and Citizens League. The series' goal is to provide an informal setting for the public to come and discuss important policy issues with community leaders and thinkers.
WHEN: Thursday, April 19. Doors at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Solera, 900 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis
TICKETS: $10; $5 for students with valid ID (ticket price includes appetizers provided by Solera). Ticket are reserved via the Citizens League Web site: http://citizensleague.org/events/past/2007/04/policy_and_a_pi_5.php.
Press Contacts:
Christina Schmitt
Minnesota Public Radio
651-290-1449
cschmitt@mpr.org
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