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===Peterson-Pew Commission Members===
'''Co-Chairs'''
*[[Bill Frenzel]], former Republican congressman from Minnesota.
*[[Jim Nussle]], former Republican congressman from Iowa and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush.
*[[Timothy Penny]], former Democratic congressman from Minnesota.
*[[Charlie Stenholm]], former Democratic congressman from Texas.
'''President'''
*[[Maya MacGuineas]], President of the [[Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget]], Director of the Fiscal Policy Program at the [[New America Foundation]], a nonpartisan think tank.
'''Directors'''
*[[Barry Anderson]], former deputy director and then the acting director of the Congressional Budget Office.
*[[Erskine Bowles]], former director of the Small Business Administration, and deputy chief of staff and chief of staff under the Clinton Administration. He is also co-chair of the [[National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform]] AKA the [[Simpson-Bowles Commission]].
*[[Charles Bowsher]], former comptroller general of the General Accounting Office under Ronald Reagan .
*[[Dan Crippen]], former director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1999 through 2003.
*[[Vic Fazio]], former Democratic congressman from California.
Bill Gradison, Jr.
Mr. Gradison served nine terms in Congress as a member from Ohio, where he was the ranking member of the House Budget Committee and the ranking member on the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee. Prior to that, he was the assistant to the secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, an under secretary of the Treasury, and mayor of Cincinnati. Since leaving Congress, he has been president of the Health Insurance Association of America, a member of the audit committee for Project HOPE, and the senior public policy counselor at Patton Boggs. Currently, he is a member of the Board of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
William H. Gray, III
From 1978-1991, Mr. Gray served as a U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania, and was the chairman of the House Budget Committee, chairman of the Democratic Caucus, and majority whip. After leaving Congress, Mr. Gray became president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and served as special adviser to President Clinton on developing and implementing a policy to restore democracy in Haiti. He is founder and chairman of The Amani Group, a business advisory firm.
William Hoagland
Mr. Hoagland, who currently serves as the Senior Vice President at the Bipartisan Policy Center, served as the director of Budget and Appropriations in the Office of the Senate Majority Leader. From 1982 until 2003, Mr. Hoagland was a staff member of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, serving as staff director from 1986 to 2003. He also was the administrator of the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service and as a special assistant to the secretary of Agriculture and at the Congressional Budget Office. He currently is an affiliate professor of public policy at the George Mason University.
James Jones
Mr. Jones currently serves as a co-chairman and chief executive officer of Manatt Jones Global Strategies, a business consulting firm, and is senior counsel to the law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Prior to joining the firm, he served as U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Jones has also served as president of Warnaco International and chairman and CEO of the American Stock Exchange. As congressman of Oklahoma from 1973 to 1987, he was chairman of the House Budget Committee and a ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee. When he was only 28, President Lyndon Johnson selected him as chief of staff, making him the youngest person in history to hold this position. Mr. Jones serves on a number of Boards including thos of Anheuser Busch and the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Lou Kerr
Mrs. Kerr is an active leader in the community of Oklahoma City as well as the state and the country. She is president and chair of The Kerr Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Kerr is involved in many activities, boards and philanthropic endeavors. Ms. Kerr sits on many boards, including the Women's Leadership Board of the John F. Kennedy School of Government-Harvard University, University of Oklahoma International Programs Center with Ambassador Edward Pekins and Ambassador Edwin Corr, UMB-Oklahoma Bank, Lyric Theatre, the International Business Forum, and the Advisory Board for the Oklahoma Health Center Foundation. She is chair of the Capitol Preservation Commission for Oklahoma, a national trustee for the National Symphony Orchestra, and serves on the Truman Foundation Scholarship Selection Committee. In 1995, President Clinton appointed her to the Oklahoma City Scholarship Fund Advisory Board.
Jim Kolbe
Mr. Kolbe is a former member of the US House of Representatives from the state of Arizona, serving from 1985 through 2007. While in the House, he was a member of the Appropriations Committee, serving as chair of the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs. He now serves as a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund think tank, in addition to being a consultant for Kissinger McLarty Associates. He is co-chair of the Transatlantic Taskforce on Development with Gunilla Carlsson, the Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation. He also serves as an adjunct professor in the College of Business at the University of Arizona.
James T. McIntyre, Jr.
Mr. McIntyre joined the Carter administration as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, becoming director later that year. Prior to that, he was general counsel for the Georgia Municipal Association, serving until appointment as seputy state revenue commissioner in 1970. While serving as deputy state revenue commissioner, he was appointed director of the Office of Planning and Budget for the State by Governor Carter. After he left government, he established the McIntyre Law Firm. Mr. McIntyre is a trustee of Young Harris College.
David Minge
Mr. Minge, a former U.S. representative from Minnesota, served on the House Agriculture Committee, House Budget Committee, Joint Economic Committee, and the House Science Committee. He is co-founder and past member of the Clean Up the River Environment Board as well as co-founder and past chair of the Agricultural Law Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association. Currently, Mr. Minge is a judge for the Minnesota Court of Appeals. In addition, he is a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., a fellow in the W.W. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Program, and a lecturer at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
June O'Neill
Dr. O'Neill served as director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1995 to 1999. Prior to that, she held positions as director of policy and research at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers, senior research associate at the Urban Institute, and research associate at the Brookings Institution. She was elected vice president of the American Economics Association in 1998. Currently, she is the director of the Center for the Study of Business and Government at Baruch College, CUNY. She is also an adjunct scholar of the American Enterprise Institute.
Paul O'Neill
Paul H. O’Neill is a Senior Advisor and Consultant to The Blackstone Group. Mr. O’Neill served as the 72nd Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 2001 to 2002. Previously, he was chairman and CEO of Alcoa from 1987 to 1999, retiring as chairman at the end of 2000. Prior to joining Alcoa, Mr. O’Neill was president of International Paper Company from 1985 to 1987, where he was vice president from 1977 to 1985. Mr. O’Neill was on the staff of the Office of Management and Budget from 1967 to 1977, serving as deputy director from 1974 to 1977. He worked as a computer systems analyst with the U.S. Veterans Administration from 1961 to 1966.
Marne Obernauer, Jr.
Mr. Obernauer is chairman of the Beverage Distributors Company. He was formerly vice chairman and director of Applied Graphics Technologies, Inc., and chairman and CEO of Devon Group, Inc. before the company merged with Applied Graphics. He spent nearly a decade as an investment officer with Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette and with First National City Bank (now Citibank). He is a founding member and director of the American Business Conference and a trustee of the Trinity School in New York City.
Robert Packwood
Mr. Packwood represented the state of Oregon in the United States Senate for 26 years. While in the Senate, he was chair of the Senate Commerce Committee and was chair of the Senate Finance Committee when the landmark Tax Reform Act of 1986 was passed. Prior to being in the Senate, he served in the Oregon House of Representatives for six years.
Rudolph Penner
Rudolph G. Penner is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. Previously, he was a managing director of the Barents Group, a KPMG Company. He was director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987. From 1977 to 1983, he was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Previous posts in government include assistant director for economic policy at the Office of Management and Budget, deputy assistant secretary for economic affairs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisors.
Peter G. Peterson
Mr. Peterson is the founder and chairman of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. He is also chairman emeritus of The Blackstone Group, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, chairman emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the founding chairman of the Institute for International Economics. He is also the founding president of The Concord Coalition. Prior to this, he served as chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers and secretary of Commerce under President Nixon.
Robert Reischauer
Dr. Reischauer was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1989 to 1995. Before that he served as the Urban Institute's senior vice president from 1981 to 1986. He was the Congressional Budget Office's assistant director for human resources and its deputy director between 1977 and 1981. After leaving government, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Currently, he is the president of the Urban Institute and serves on the boards of several educational and nonprofit organizations.
Alice Rivlin
Dr. Rivlin became the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office in 1975 and served until 1983. She was director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration. Later she was a governor and vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Currently, she is the director of the Greater Washington Research Program and senior fellow of Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution. She is also a visiting professor at the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University.
Charles Robb
Charles S. Robb is on the faculty of George Mason University as a Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy in 2001. Previously he served as Lt. Governor of Virginia, from 1978 to 1982, as Virginia’s 64th Governor, from 1982 to 1986, and as a United States Senator, from 1989 to 2001. While in the Senate he became the first member ever to serve simultaneously on all three national security committees (Intelligence, Armed Services, and Foreign Relations). He also served on the Finance, Commerce, and Budget Committees. Since leaving the Senate in 2001 he has served as Chairman of the Board of Visitors at the United States Naval Academy, Co-Chairman of the President’s Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. He has also been a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board, the Iraq Study Group, and the Afghanistan Study Group, and was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard and at the Marshall Wythe School of Law at William & Mary.
Martin Sabo
Mr. Sabo is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota's fifth district, where he served for twenty-eight years. In Congress, he chaired the House Budget Committee and sat on the House Appropriations Committee. Mr. Sabo was also a presidential appointment to the National Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, served as President of both the National Conference of State Legislatures and National Legislative Conference, and founded the Friends of Norway Caucus in the House in 1999. Prior to his tenure in Washington, Mr. Sabo served as Speaker of the House for the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Alan K. Simpson
Mr. Simpson served as United States Senator from Wyoming for 18 years. While in Congress, Senator Simpson served as Chairman of the Veteran’s Committee, Immigration and Refugee Subcommittee of Judiciary, the Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee, the Social Security Subcommittee and the Committee on Aging. Recently, Simpson was appointed as co-chair to President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with co-chair Eskine Bowles. During his time at the Fiscal Commission, he and fellow co-chair Erskine Bowles were able to garner a bipartisan majority of 11 out of 18 Commission members to support a final debt reduction plan.
John Spratt
Rep. Spratt served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 28 years. While in Congress, he served as Chairman of the House Budget Committee from 2007 to 2011 and also served on the Armed Services Committee. During his time in Congress, Rep. Spratt championed fiscal responsibility and played a critical role in budget negotiations in the 1990s, which led to surpluses for the first time in 30 years. Rep. Spratt was also appointed to President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, where he helped garner a bipartisan majority of 11 out of 18 votes in support of a final debt reduction plan.
Eugene Steuerle
Eugene Steuerle is a senior fellow at The Urban Institute, co-director of the Urban- Brookings Tax Policy Center, and a columnist for Tax Notes Magazine. In the past, he has served as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax analysis, president of the National Tax Association, chair of the 1999 Technical Panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions, economic coordinator and original organizer of the 1984 Treasury study that led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and a columnist for the Financial Times. Dr. Steuerle is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of fifteen books.
David Stockman
Mr. Stockman is the founding partner of Heartland Industrial Partners. He was formerly a senior managing director of The Blackstone Group. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Stockman was a managing director at Salomon Brothers, Inc. He served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan administration and was the youngest Cabinet member of the twentieth century. From 1976 to 1981, Mr. Stockman represented Michigan in the House of Representatives.
John Tanner
Mr. Tanner was a representative from Tennessee for 22 years. While in Congress, he served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Ways and Means, and was one of the founders of the Blue Dog Democrats. Additionally, Rep. Tanner served as President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. As a member of Congress, Tanner was a strong advocate of balancing the budget and paying down the debt.
Laura Tyson
Dr. Tyson serves as a member of President Barack Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. She served in the Clinton administration and was the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers between 1993 and 1995, and was the president’s national economic adviser between 1995 and 1996. Currently, Dr. Tyson is a professor at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications are featured in The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
George Voinovich
Mr. Voinovich served as United States senator from Ohio for 11 years. He previously served as governor of Ohio from 1991-1998, and mayor of Cleveland from 1980-1989. While in Congress, Senator Voinovich served on the Committee on Appropriations, Committee on Environment and Public Works, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. Voinovich is recognized for his fiscal leadership on budget policies.
Paul Volcker
Mr. Volcker served under five presidents- from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan to the current one, Barack Obama. He is currently the chairman of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. He served as under secretary of the Treasury for monetary affairs from 1969 to 1974 and as president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank for the subsequent five years. He served as chairman of the Federal Reserve System under Presidents Carter and Reagan. He later became chairman and CEO of Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., and a professor of international economics at Princeton University. Since his retirement from the Federal Reserve, Mr. Volcker has served in a variety of public-service roles, including as a volunteer chairman of the Commission on Public Service and chair of the International Independent Committee of Eminent Persons, which investigates the Swiss bank accounts of holocaust victims. In the wake of the Enron scandal, he was involved in revamping Arthur Andersen.
Carol Cox Wait
Carol Wait is president of Boggs Realty Company, a family owned real estate company that has done business in Bellflower, California since 1936. Previously, she served as the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. President George H.W. Bush appointed Mrs. Wait to the Glass Ceiling Commission. Mrs. Wait serves on the Board of CIGNA Corporation and is a past president of the International Women’s Forum. Currently, Mrs. Wait serves as resident of the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation.
David Walker
Mr. Walker is the Founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative (CAI). In this capacity he leads CAI's efforts to promote fiscal responsibility and sustainability by engaging the public and assisting key policymakers on a non-partisan basis to help achieve solutions to America’s federal, state and local fiscal imbalances. Prior to assuming his current position, he served as the first President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Previously, he served as the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) for almost ten years (1998-2008). He also has over 20 years of private sector experience, including approximately 10 years as a Partner and Global Managing Director of Human Capital Services for Arthur Andersen LLP. Mr. Walker has also authored three books, is a frequent writer and media commentator, and is a subject of the critically acclaimed documentary "I.O.U.S.A."
Joseph R. Wright, Jr.
Mr. Wright was director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989. He was also deputy secretary of the Department of Commerce from 1981 to 1982, and later was on the President's Export Council as chairman of the Export Control Subcommittee. He served as vice-chairman and director of Terremark Worldwide Inc., vice chairman/director of Jefferson Consulting Group, co-chairman/director of Baker & Taylor Holdings and as a member of the AT&T Government Markets Advisory Board. Currently, he is the president and chief executive officer of PanAmSat a provider of global video and data broadcasting via satellite.
'''Senior Advisors'''
*[[Robert Strauss]], former chairman of the Democratic National Committee from, chairman of President Carter's election campaigns, special trade representative under President Carter, and President Carter's personal representative to the Middle East Peace Negotiations. He later served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union.
[http://budgetreform.org/node/1399/commissioners About Us], Accessed July 4, 2013
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