CRFB Board of Directors

Co-Chair, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Mr. Frenzel was the ranking minority member on the House Budget Committee, and was the principal Republican economic spokesperson in the House. He was a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and its Trade Subcommittee, and a Congressional representative to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. He served as special advisor to President Clinton for NAFTA; on President Bush's Social Security Commission; on the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN); and on President Bush's Tax Reform Commission. He is currently a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. He and his wife, Ruthy, are the parents of three daughters and grandparents of two perfect grandchildren.

Co-Chair, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Mr. Panetta is a former U.S. representative from California and during his last two terms was chairman of the House Budget Committee. During the Clinton Administration he served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1993 and White House Chief of Staff from 1994-1996. Currently, he is a professor of politics at Santa Clara University, Distinguished Professor for the California State University, and director of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy. He also co-directs the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy and serves on many public policy and organizational boards.

President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Maya MacGuineas is the President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Additionally, she is the Director of the Fiscal Policy Program at the New America Foundation. Previously, she served as a Social Security adviser to the McCain Presidential Campaign, and worked at the Brookings Institution, the Concord Coalition and on Wall Street. She serves on the Boards of a number of national, nonpartisan organizations.

 

Barry Anderson is currently head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Prior to joining OECD, Mr. Anderson was a budget advisor at the International Monetary Fund. Before joining the IMF, Mr. Anderson served in various positions dealing with federal budgeting in the United States Federal Government, most recently as the deputy director and then the acting director of the Congressional Budget Office. He has also been a member of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board, and has taught courses on the U.S. budget process for George Washington University and the Office of Personnel Management.

Mr. Ash is co-founder of Litton Industries. He served as its director and president until 1972. Later, he became chairman of the President's Advisory Council on Executive Organization and served as director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Nixon and Ford administrations.

Mr. Bowsher was the comptroller general of the General Accounting Office, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Prior to that, he was with Arthur Andersen & Co. for 25 years and served as assistant secretary of the Navy for Financial Management. Currently, he sits on several corporate and advisory boards, and is a member of the Public Accounting Oversight Board.

Steve Coll is president & CEO of New America Foundation, and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post, serving as the paper’s managing editor from 1998 to 2004. He is author of six books, including The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of AT&T; The Taking of Getty Oil; Eagle on the Street; On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001; and The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. Mr. Coll’s professional awards include two Pulitzer Prizes.

Mr. Crippen served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1999 through 2003. Prior to his stint at CBO, Mr. Crippen was President George H. W. Bush's adviser on all issues relating to domestic policy, including the preparation of the federal budget. From 1981 to 1985, he served as chief counsel and economic policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee. In the private sector, he was a principal with the Washington Counsel, a consulting firm. He has also served as executive director of the Merrill Lynch International Advisory Council and as senior vice president of the Duberstein Group.

Mr. Fazio is a former Democratic congressman who represented the state of California between 1979 and 1999. Congressman Fazio served on the Budget and Appropriations Committees, among others, and was an active member of the Democratic leadership, rising to chairman of the Democratic Caucus in 1994. Currently, Mr. Fazio is a senior advisor at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

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.

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.

Mr. Hoagland, who currently works at CIGNA, 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. Lynn is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of Aetna Life & Casualty, and is currently a senior adviser at Lazard Freres & Co., LLC. During the Nixon administration, he served as general counsel at the Department of Commerce, under secretary at the Department of Commerce, and secretary of Housing and Urban Development. In 1975, he was appointed by President Ford to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Later, Mr. Lynn became chairman of Aetna.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Penny represented Minnesota’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1982-1994. Throughout his congressional career, Penny placed an emphasis on budget issues. He chaired the Democratic Budget Group as well as the Porkbusters Coalition. Previously, he was a member of the Minnesota State Senate from 1976-82. In 2001, he was appointed to President Bush's bipartisan commission on Social Security. Most recently, Penny was a senior counselor at Himle Horner, a Twin Cities-based public relations and public affairs firm, and co-chair of the Humphrey Institute Forum at the University of Minnesota. Currently, Penny serves as Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation’s (SMIF) president & CEO. He is the co-author of two books, Common Cents (1995) and The 15 Biggest Lies in Politics (1998).

Mr. Peterson is chairman of The Blackstone Group, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the founding chairman of the Institute for International Economics. He is currently a director of Transtar, Inc. and Sony Corporation. He is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, the Japan Society, and the Museum of Modern Art, director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Public Agenda Foundation, and The Nixon Center. 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.

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.

Dr. Rivlin was the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office. Prior to that, she was the chair of the District of Columbia Financial Management Assistance Authority, a vice chair of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, and director of the Office of Management and Budget. 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.

Rep. Stenholm was a representative from Texas for 26 years. While in Congress, he served on the Agriculture Committee and was founder and coordinator of the Conservative Democratic Forum in the 1980s. Stenholm consistently advanced fiscal responsibility in the federal budget. The balanced budget plans which Stenholm crafted in both the 104th and 105th Congresses with a group of moderate and conservative Democrats known as the "Blue Dog Coalition" have received wide national acclaim as the most honest, pragmatic, and fair proposals on the table. Currently, Mr. Stenholm is a senior policy advisor at Olsson Frank Weeda, P.C.

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.

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.

Dr. Summers is the Charles W. Elliot University Professor at Harvard University. From 2001 – 2006 he served as president of Harvard University. He served as under secretary, deputy secretary and secretary of the Treasury under the Clinton administration. During Summers’ tenure at the Treasury, the United States experienced the longest period of sustained economic growth in the nation’s history. From 1991 – 1993 he was the chief economist at the World Bank. Summers is the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his work on macroeconomics, among numerous other awards and honors.

Mr. Volcker served under five presidents- from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan. 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 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.

Mr. Walker serves as president and CEO of the Peterson Foundation. Prior to joining the Peterson Foundation, Mr. Walker served as the comptroller general of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Walker was a partner and global managing director at Arthur Andersen LLP and served as a public trustee for Social Security and Medicare from 1990 to 1995. Before joining Arthur Andersen, Mr. Walker was assistant secretary of Labor for pension and welfare benefit programs and served as acting executive director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Mr. Walker is chairman of the Independent Audit Advisory Committee for the United Nations and a member of the Partnership for Public Service.

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 Advisor, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Mr. Bellmon is a co-founder and former co-chairman of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and continues to serve as a senior advisor. He became Oklahoma's first Republican governor in 1963. He served as a U.S. senator from Oklahoma from 1968 to 1980. Mr. Bellmon was director of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services in 1983. In 1986, he was reelected governor, serving until 1991. After retiring from public office, Mr. Bellmon was a professor and lecturer at Oklahoma City University, Central State University, the University of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State University. He was a member of the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid.

Senior Advisor, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Mr. Staats was appointed as the comptroller general of the United States by President Johnson. Prior to serving as comptroller general, he was appointed deputy director of the budget under Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. From 1984 to 1990, he was a member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. He was the first chairman of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board from 1990 to 1997. Currently, he is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and member and councilor of The Conference Board.

Senior Advisor, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Mr. Strauss is a founding partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, as well as chairman of AG Global Solutions. Mr. Strauss served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1973 to 1976 and chairman of President Carter's election campaigns in 1976 and 1980. He served as special trade representative under President Carter, as well as the President's personal representative to the Middle East Peace Negotiations. He later served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union. Currently, he is with Akin Gump and serves as chairman of the U.S.-Russia Business Council, is a member of the Council on Foreign Affairs, and is a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.