Daniels to testify before Joint Economic Committee

President Mitch Daniels will testify at 9:30 a.m. Thursday (Sept. 8) before a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress.

Daniels, along with the Honorable Judd Gregg, former New Hampshire governor and senator, and Alice Rivlin, economist and former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, will speak about "Federal Debt: Direction, Drivers and Dangers." The hearing will be livestreamed at http://www.senate.gov/isvp/?type=LIVE&comm=jec&filename=LIVE.

Also, while in Washington, D.C., Daniels will host Mike McCurry for a special installment of Purdue's Presidential Lecture Series. Daniels will interview Curry, former White House press secretary to President Bill Clinton, about "Election 2016 and the Intersection of Politics and Policy" at 6 p.m. Wednesday (Sept. 7). McCurry is co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, of which Daniels is also a member.