WASHINGTON–The Concord Coalition announced today
that Charles S. Konigsberg has been hired as the organization’s Chief Budget
Counsel. Konigsberg comes to The Concord Coalition after having served more
than two decades in senior-level positions in the U.S. Senate and Executive
Branch.
WASHINGTON–The Concord Coalition announced today
that Charles S. Konigsberg has been hired as the organization’s Chief Budget
Counsel. Konigsberg comes to The Concord Coalition after having served more
than two decades in senior-level positions in the U.S. Senate and Executive
Branch.
"We are very pleased to welcome
Chuck to our staff. He brings an unmatched knowledge of the federal budget
process and a commitment to educating the public about the looming fiscal
crisis," said Concord Coalition Executive Director
Robert L. Bixby.
As Chief Budget Counsel, Mr. Konigsberg will continue to
write his influential Washington Budget Report, launched in January 2007,
which will now be known as The Concord Coalition Budget Report.
Konigsberg began his bipartisan Senate career as Staff
Attorney at the Senate Budget Committee. He then moved on to the Senate Rules
and Administration Committee for six years where he served as Chief Counsel on
the Committee’s Minority Staff. Most recently in the Senate, Konigsberg served
four years as General Counsel to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)
at the Senate Finance Committee and managed the Committee’s half trillion-dollar
deficit reduction legislation for Chairman Moynihan. Mr. Konigsberg also served
in the administration of President Bill Clinton as an Assistant Director at the
Office of Management and Budget.
Konigsberg is the author of America’s Priorities: How
the U.S. Government Raises and Spends $3,000,000,000,000 (Trillion) Per Year (2008).
The book, which has received bipartisan acclaim, provides plain English
explanations of major federal spending programs, federal taxes, the budget
process, and the swing from deficits in the 1980s to surpluses in the late
1990s, and back to rapidly rising debt in the current decade. Konigsberg also
launched a companion website on the federal budget, www.GovBudget.com.
Mr. Konigsberg graduated magna cum laude and Phi
Beta Kappa from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1980 and from the Case
Western Reserve School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio in 1983, where he was Executive
Editor of the Law Review.
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The Concord Coalition is a nonpartisan, grassroots
organization dedicated to balanced federal budgets and generationally
responsible fiscal policy. Former U.S. Senators Warren Rudman (R-NH) and Bob
Kerrey (D-NE) serve as Concord’s co-chairs and former Secretary of Commerce
Peter Peterson serves as president.
CONTACT:
Jonathan DeWald
(703) 894-6222
jdewald@concordcoalition.org
