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 THOMAS E. MANN serves
in the Governmental Studies Program at The
Brookings Institution. He was previously executive director of the American Political
Science Association and co-director of the Congress Project at the American Enterprise
Institute. Dr. Mann also was a member of the Democratic National Committee's Winograd and
Hunt commissions dealing with presidential selection. Dr. Mann lectures frequently in the
United States and abroad on various aspects of American politics. He has also written a
variety of published works including Unsafe at Any Margin: Interpreting Congressional
Elections, Vital Statistics on Congress, The New Congress, and
The
American Elections of 1982.
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JERRY MANSFIELD, is an information research specialist at the Congressional
Research Service of the Library of Congress, where he specializes in
Congress as an institution, constitutional amendments, and disaster relief.
He is a member of the Congress faculty. An international library
consultant, he has also served as secretary, treasurer and chair of two
sections (Government Information & Official Publications and Government
Libraries) within the International Federation of Library Associations.
Mr. Mansfield has a BA degree from Hanover College and a MLS from the University
of Kentucky. He has worked in academic libraries, a medical library, and
government libraries. For most of the 1980s he lived and worked in Saudi
Arabia as a director of a group of medical libraries followed by a four-year
stint as Chief Advisor for Library Affairs at the National Center for
Financial and Economic Information of the Ministry of Finance in Saudi
Arabia. In 1990 he joined the U.S. Postal Service Corporate Library where
he served prior to joining CRS in 2000.
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 GEBE MARTINEZ is a freelance journalist and a frequent commentator on PBS' Washington Week with Gwen Ifil. She is a contributing columnist for The Politico, a newspaper and website that covers the intersection of politics, Congress, and lobbyists. Most recently, Ms. Martinez was a reporter in the Washington bureau of the Houston Chronicle.
She was previously with Congressional Quarterly, covering the House leadership for the CQ Weekly. Ms. Martinez has been a government and politics reporter since 1976. She arrived in Washington in late 1994, just after the historic election that gave Republicans control of the House for the first time in 40 years. While most of her time in Washington has been spent covering Congress, she also covered the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections, including the Florida election recount.
Ms. Martinez is a native Texan and a graduate of the
University of Texas at Austin.
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 CHUCK McCUTCHEON
is co-editor of Politics in America at CQ-Roll Call Group.
Prior to this position, he covered criminal justice, legal issues, terrorism and homeland security for Newhouse News Service. Before joining Newhouse in August 2002, he spent six years as a reporter for Congressional Quarterly in Washington specializing in energy and national security issues. He also has worked for the Albuquerque (NM) Journal and Orange County (CA) Register. A graduate of Northwestern University, McCutcheon is the author of "Nuclear Reactions" (2002), a history of the world's first radioactive waste dump.
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 RAYMOND J. McGRATH
is president of the Downey McGrath Group, Inc., a bipartisan
government affairs consulting firm that provides strategic advice and
expertise to business, labor, non-profit and other organizations on
matters of public policy. Mr. McGrath joined the firm in 1999 and
brings more than 30 years of experience dealing with public policy
issues at all levels of government and in the private sector.
From 1981 to 1993, Mr. McGrath represented the 5th District of New
York in the U.S. House of Representatives. As a member of the House
Ways and Means Committee for eight years, he developed an expertise in
tax, trade and health care issues. Prior to joining the Downey McGrath
Group, Mr. McGrath served as president and chief operating officer of
the Beer Institute, a trade association representing more than 300
industry members worldwide. He also served as Director of the Alcohol
Beverage Medical Research Foundation. Before coming to Congress, Mr.
McGrath served in the New York State Assembly, where he was a pivotal
force in helping to reform the state's Medicaid system.
Mr. McGrath serves on the
Board of Advisors for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and
is on the Board of Directors for the Center for Congressional and
Presidential Studies at the American University. He also serves as a
guest instructor at the Lobbying Institute at the American University.
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 ROBERT McLEAN has
worked in the communication industry since 1978. He has worked in
government relations since 1985, first for a federal agency and later
for an association, and became a registered lobbyist in 1988. Mr.
McLean opened his own consulting firm, REM Association Services, in
1996. Currently, he lobbies for a number of clients and teaches
classes to government agencies, associations, unions, and corporations
on working with members of Congress and their staffs, grassroots
lobbying, critical thinking and writing, writing congressional
correspondence, communications and the Internet.
Mr. McLean is also a Certified Association Executive (CAE). As
executive director for six trade associations, he manages their public relations
campaigns and often serves as their official spokesman. He has been
interviewed by many major daily newspapers, including The Washington
Post and The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on CNBC.
Mr. McLean lectures frequently before business and government groups
for TheCapitol.Net, and previously taught for Congressional Quarterly
Executive Conferences. He has been an adjunct professor with George
Mason University, where he has taught graduate courses in business
communication skills and in solving writing problems. Mr. McLean has a
BA in journalism from the Memphis State University and an MA in
English from George Mason University.
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 JILL KAMP MELTON, is a communications consultant with clients in the US, Canada and Europe. As founder and artistic director of The American Showcase Theatre Company in Alexandria, VA, now called Metro Stage, Ms. Melton taught acting, voice, and she directed several award winning productions, such as The Blood Knot by Athol Fugard (about apartheid in South Africa) and Talking Things Over With Chekhov. Ms. Melton has trained over 6,000 actors, some of whom perform on and off Broadway, in Hollywood and in regional theatres across the US.
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ALAN METZLER, Colonel, U.S. Army, is the Military Assistant in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs at The Pentagon.
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 ROY T. MEYERS is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(UNMBC), where he has taught since 1990. From 1981-1990, he was a budget analyst at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
At UMBC, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on government budgeting, political activism and leadership, and the introductory seminar for UMBC's Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program, which he directs. He has also taught introductory courses in American government and politics, and in public administration, a senior research seminar on public administration and policy, and a graduate course on American national institutions and policy.
Professor Meyers is the author of the "Handbook of Government Budgeting" (1999), and "Strategic Budgeting" (1994), which co-won the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration in 1996. He has written articles and reports on normative budgeting models and on a variety of features of the Congressional budget process and federal government budgeting.
Professor Meyers earned a BA in government from Colby College, and his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His dissertation won the 1989 L.D. White Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association.
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JIM MILLS is the
senior editor covering Capitol Hill for Fox News. He serves various
Fox News programs and correspondents including Brit Hume's Special
Report. He covers major news stories involving Congress and politics
including this summer's party conventions. Mr. Mills is also a humor
columnist for Rollcall.com, which publishes his articles twice a week.
From 1991-1995, he was a
Capitol Hill producer for C-SPAN where he produced several
"day-in-the-life" specials about John McCain, Alan Simpson, Tom
Daschle, George Mitchell, Susan Molinari, and others. Previously, Mr.
Mills wrote for Cloakroom.com for National Journal. He has also been a
freelance writer for radio networks and UPI, and has served as a
statehouse reporter and as a news director.
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 CLETA MITCHELL is a partner in Foley & Lardner's Washington, DC office and a member of the firm's Public Affairs practice. She has more than 30 years of experience in law, politics and public policy. Ms. Mitchell advises corporations, nonprofit organizations, candidates, campaigns, and individuals on state and federal election and campaign finance law, and compliance issues related to lobbying, ethics and financial disclosure. A member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1976-1984, Ms. Mitchell chaired the House Appropriations and Budget Committee. She served on the executive committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Ms. Mitchell was in private law practice in Oklahoma City in litigation and administrative law until 1991 when she became director and general counsel of the Term Limits Legal Institute in Washington, DC. Ms. Mitchell represents numerous Republican candidates, campaigns and members of Congress, and she has served as legal counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
She received her BA (high honors) and JD from the University of Oklahoma.
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 NED MONROE, CAE, is the
Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA). He was
previously Vice President of Political Affairs at the National
Restaurant Association from 2005 to 2009. In this position, Ned was responsible for all
aspects of the association’s federal political action committee.
Prior to the
National Restaurant Association, Ned served as the Director of Political Affairs for
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), a national trade association of
commercial and industrial construction companies. As the national political
director, Ned managed political activities and grassroots lobbying. He
also served as the Treasurer for the ABC-PAC. Ned served in this position
from 1997 until 2005.
Ned was also the 2006 President of the National Association of Business
Political Action Committees (NABPAC). NABPAC is a membership association dedicated to promoting and defending PACs and political action professionals.
Ned has worked in numerous political campaigns around the country, was the
Executive Director of the Republican Party of Florida, Deputy Regional
Political Director for the Republican National Committee and the Virginia
Campaign Manager for the 1988 George Bush for President Campaign.
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CARL MORAVITZ is a Senior Managing Consultant with IBM, working directly on budget and performance integration, performance-based budgeting solutions, and federal financial management. He has over 30 years of experience in managing and directing budgets for large and diverse organizations. Mr. Moravitz served as a budget director at the U.S. Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Voice of America.
He is a leader in streamlining and simplifying budget processes, focusing and addressing key policy issues usually ignored in the budget process. His leadership in Performance Budgeting includes the development of a prototype Results Act-Compliant Performance Budget that has served as the model for the presentation of integrated budget and performance plans to OMB and the Congress. While at the Department of the Treasury, he served 18 months as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategy and Finance during the transition to a new administration in 2001.
Mr. Moravitz has broad knowledge in the funding challenges accompanying the full stewardship of federal government finances, and its impact on federal budget policy in general, and agency and organizational processes in particular. He has extensive knowledge and understanding of financial and general management programs and issues; demonstrated ability and experience in the federal budget and legislative process; and knowledge of the operations, organization and interrelationships of both the executive and legislative branches of government.
While at IBM, he has been working as a thought leader in the area of Performance-based Budgeting, including the development of best practices and budget office improvements. He has also worked with an assortment of software partners in the development of performance-based budget applications for the public sector. Mr. Moravitz is also affiliated with the IBM Center for the Business of Government, an endowment organization that helps public sector executives improve the effectiveness of government with practical ideas and original thinking, sponsoring independent research by top minds in academe and the non-profit sector.
With the IBM Center, he has written several articles and publications on performance management and budgeting, including selected best practices and recommended directions. He has jointly authored, with Jonathan Breul, in January 2007, a book specifically on performance-based budgeting in the public sector, Performance and Budgeting: The Budget Office of Tomorrow, and contributed to a performance-based chapter for a recently published book (September 2007), International Handbook of Practice-Based Performance Management.
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 NICOLE NASON is the Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Previously, she was Assistant Secretary for Government Affairs, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation, where she was responsible for oversight of congressional affairs, coordinating all legislative and non-legislative relationships between the Department and Congress, and directing the presentation of the Department's legislative program.
Prior to DOT, Ms. Nason was with the U.S. Customs Service, where she was Assistant Commissioner
of the Office of Congressional Affairs. She also served as counsel for the House Judiciary Committee under Chairman Henry Hyde of Illinois and as counsel and communications director for Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss of Florida. Previously, Ms. Nason served as government affairs counsel for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. She earned her bachelor's degree at American University and her law degree at Case Western University Law School.
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DAVID NATHER is a reporter for Congressional Quarterly (CQ), where he covers the congressional leadership in the House and Senate. He specializes in the political overview of Congress, including the legislative agenda, the strategies of the party leaders and the relationship between Congress and the White House. He has also covered education and social policy for CQ, including the passage of the "No Child Left Behind" education law and the debate over President Bush's faith-based initiative.
Before coming to CQ, Mr. Nather covered health care legislation in Congress for the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., including Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and proposals to cover the uninsured and regulate managed care. Prior to arriving in Washington, Mr. Nather was a reporter for The Dallas Morning News, covering aviation and the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs. His articles have also appeared in The Washington Monthly.
Mr. Nather has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master's degree in political science from The George Washington University.
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 FREDERICK H. NESBITT
is the executive director and legislative counsel for the National
Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS). Prior to
this position, Fred served for the past 12 years as director of
governmental affairs and political action for the International
Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), and previous to that for 9 years
as special assistant to the president of the National Association of
Letter Carriers (NALC).
Mr. Nesbitt has been a lobbyist on Capitol Hill for 22 years, lobbying
on pensions, taxes and employee benefits for both federal employees,
and state and local government employees.
Before coming to
Washington, Mr. Nesbitt was a professor of political science and labor
relations at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and St. Francis
College (PA). He earned his bachelor's degree at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania and his master's and doctorate degrees from West Virginia
University. He is the co-editor of Labor and American Politics.
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 KATHRYN NEWCOMER is the director of the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University where she teaches public and nonprofit, program evaluation, research design, and applied statistics. She conducts research and training for federal and local government agencies on performance measurement and program evaluation, and has consulted the governments of the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Brazil on performance auditing.
Dr. Newcomer has published
four books, "Improving Government Performance" (1989), "The Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation" (1994, 2004), "Using Performance Measurement to Improve Public and Nonprofit Programs" (1997), and "Meeting the Challenges of Performance-Oriented Government" (2002), and numerous articles in journals including the Public Administration Review. She served on the Advisory Council on Auditing Standards for the U.S. General Accountability Office, and she is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Dr. Newcomer has won two awards for her teaching: in 1996 she was awarded the Peter Vail Excellence in Education Award and in May 2000 she received the George Washington Award. She has received two Fulbright awards, one for Taiwan (1993) and one for Egypt (2001-04).
Dr. Newcomer earned a BS in education and an MA in Political Science from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in political science from the University of Iowa.
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 WILLIAM NOXON
was a broadcaster with broad experience in news, sports, and studio production from college through the 1970s and early 1980s. From 1982 to the present, he has been a practitioner in all areas of public relations, creating communications strategies, primarily for senior management in the Federal Government, but also for regional corporate leaders and non-profit organizations...
From 1995 through 2005, Mr. Noxon was a Senior Public Affairs Specialist with the National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency that funds scientific and education research. He handled the most sensitive management issues with senior NSF leaders and was the "go to" professional on the media staff for handling requests for access to three of the agency's directors and several deputy directors as well as several chairs of the National Science Board, the 24-member policy advisory body to NSF.
Prior to this position, he served as a Public Affairs Officer of the National Education Goals Panel where he singly promoted activities of this small, bipartisan federal agency brought together as a result of the President's Charlottesville Education Summit in 1989. He directed media campaigns for quarterly panel meetings, a special education report on early childhood learning and a nationwide news conference for the Panel's midpoint annual report to the nation.
As chief of public communications (media and community relations), Noxon was a spokesman internationally for the U.S. Army on issues of doctrine development and training. He organized, created, and executed media and external communications strategies and led events, such as the Army's Pentagon news conference to announce revolutionary changes to post-Cold War operating doctrine. In addition to advising and preparing the commanding general (four-star rank) for this and a variety of other media events and issue-critical situations, Noxon was an advisor to key headquarters staff leaders and for 16 field media and community relations offices across the country.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications from the University of Illinois, and he has graduate credits in Public Affairs from the University of Wisconsin, and in Management from the Army Management Staff College.
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 WALTER J. OLESZEK is a senior specialist in American National Government with the
Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. He joined CRS in 1968, and has
been a consultant to both houses of Congress on their reorganization and operations reform
efforts. During 1993, he was the policy director of the Joint Committee on the
Organization of Congress. Mr. Oleszek assisted the House Rules Committee in the
development of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 and served as a professional
staff member on the House Select Committee on Committees in 1973-75.
Mr. Oleszek lectures frequently before academic, business and government groups. He has assisted the parliaments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Ghana, India, Japan, Nigeria, Romania, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam. He
currently is an adjunct professor at The American University. Mr. Oleszek is the author of
Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process. He co-authored
Congress and Its
Members, Bicameral Politics: Conference Committees in Congress and co-edited
Governing:
Reading and Cases in American Politics.
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MARY O'REILLY is
vice president of marketing, planning and communications for Public
Affairs Support Services (PASS). Prior to joining PASS, Ms. O'Reilly
was Manager, PAC and Grassroots for Novartis Corporation, where she
was responsible for growing both PAC receipts and participation. In
addition to managing the PAC, Ms. O'Reilly was responsible for
increasing employee political awareness and involvement. To accomplish
this goal, she launched a number of programs and among them was a
program to bring Members of Congress to every company site in the US
for a tour and "town hall" meeting with employees. Prior to working
for Novartis, Ms. O'Reilly was Public Affairs Coordinator for
Household International, Inc. in charge of PAC and grassroots. Ms.
O'Reilly received a BS in Consumer Affairs from Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, and an MBA from George Mason University in
1998.
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 NORMAN J. ORNSTEIN is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
for Public Policy Research. A skilled commentator on Congress, Mr. Ornstein has appeared
on ABC’s "Nightline" and NPR’s "All Things Considered" and
is a regular contributor to the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." He has been an
election commentator on the "CBS Morning News." Mr. Ornstein lectures frequently
in the United States and abroad and is the author of The American Elections of 1982,
The New Congress, Interest Groups, Lobbying and Policymaking,
and
Vital
Statistics on Congress. He has also written numerous articles and reviews on Congress
and public policy issues. Mr. Ornstein has had experience on Capitol Hill as a
congressional fellow and committee staff director.
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 SABRINA I. PACIFICI is the founder, solo editor, publisher, and web manager
of LLRX.com, a free Web journal that provides up-to-date information on law
and technology research, applications and services, which she launched in
1996. In 2003, LLRX.com was named one of the 10 best sites of the decade
(Law Technology News).
Ms. Pacifici has been an active member of the online legal community for
over a decade. She created the journal PLL Perspectives in 1989, and served
as its only editor and publisher until 1996. She then turned her focus to
web publishing, and developed one of the first webzines targeted to the
legal research community. Launched in November 1996, LLRX.com was quickly
established as a reliable online resource for researchers to leverage the
expanding content of the World Wide Web. With Ms. The site has consistently
been recognized as a publisher of comprehensive, well-documented,
non-partisan reviews, guides and content-rich resources on web-related
applications, tools, services, links and related information invaluable to
legal researchers.
Ms. Pacifici is also the solo author/editor of beSpacific
(www.bespacific.com), a current awareness monitoring blog on breaking legal,
technology and research related news and primary resources (with a database
of over 10,000 postings, and growing, since its launch September 2002).
beSpacific was recognized as the Best Overall Legal Blog of 2004; one of the
Best Law Librarian Blogs of 2005; the Best Legal Support Blog of 2005; and
it was the recipient of the 2006 AALL/West Thomson Excellence in Marketing
Award for Best Use of Technology.
Ms. Pacifici was named one of Library Journal's LJ's Movers & Shakers
2006.
She has authored many articles on legal technology topics, delivered over
one hundred presentations at professional conferences nationwide, and worked
for over two decades as a law library director, legal technologist, website
and intranet manager, as well as an enterprise blogger and a legal research
director. In the Spring of 2006, she joined a leading media company where
she continues to provide expert legal and nonlegal research services, as
well as working on knowledge initiatives and managing/authoring enterprise
wide blogs.
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ELIZABETH PALMER (Betsy) joined the Congressional Research
Service in 2003 where she is an analyst in American National Government,
focusing on the legislative process. Prior to CRS, Ms. Palmer worked for
nearly 15 years with Congressional Quarterly, most of that time as a
reporter. During her career there, she covered a wide variety of
subjects for both the daily and weekly publications, from defense and
foreign policy, to legal affairs and the House leadership. Ms. Palmer
began her career at CQ in the research department where she was the
research coordinator for CQ's Politics in America (1990), and acting
research director of CQ's Research Department. Ms. Palmer has been a
regular contributor to CQ's Politics in America, and wrote two chapters
in CQ's Guide to Congress. Ms. Palmer received her BA from Stetson
University in DeLand, FL, and an MA from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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CHARLES PARKINSON is an Associate with the PMA Group. Prior to joining PMA, he worked for 26 years in the legislative and executive branches of government, as well as two years with the Law Firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell as a Senior Public Policy Advisor.
Mr. Parkinson worked on the professional staff the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations from January, 1997 to February, 2001. During his time on the staff he advised the Chairman of the Committee on legislative strategy, parliamentary procedure and issues that cross-cut the Committee's 13 subcommittees.
Prior to joining the House Committee he served as clerk of the Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and General Government on the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations from 1982-1987 and from 1993-1997.
Between his service on the Senate Appropriations Committee he served as the Associate Commissioner for Congressional and Public Affairs of the United States Customs Service.
He began his career in Washington in 1975, as a Legislative Assistant to Congressman James Abdnor (R-SD) and joined the minority staff of the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans Affairs in 1977, where he served until 1980 when he joined the Senate campaign staff of Mr. Abdnor. Subsequent to Senator Abdnor's election to the Senate, he acted as a Special Assistant to the Senator before joining the Appropriations Committee.
Mr. Parkinson is a native of South Dakota, and holds a BA and an MA from the University of South Dakota.
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 DANIEL PARKS has been a reporter and editor at Congressional Quarterly for eight years, and is currently the managing editor of CQ Today. He also has worked at CQ as assistant managing editor, and economics and
finance editor. He began his career at CQ writing for CQ Weekly magazine, covering financial services for a year, followed by three years as budget
and appropriations reporter.
He was an American Political Science Association journalism fellow in
1997-98, working first for the House International Relations Committee, followed by an assignment with the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Before moving to Washington, Parks was a reporter for eight years at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He has published freelance articles in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, Newsweek and the New York Times, and he has provided on-air commentary and analysis for C-Span's Washington Journal, Nation Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, an other programs.
Mr. Parks has a master's degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. He has undergraduate degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire.
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 JAMES P. PFIFFNER
is professor of public policy at George
Mason University. His major areas of expertise are the presidency,
American national government, and public management. He has lectured
on these topics at universities in Europe and throughout the United
States as well as at the Federal Executive Institute, the National War
College, the U.S. Military Academy, and at the State, Justice, and
Defense Departments. He has written or edited nine books on the
presidency and American national government, including The Strategic
Presidency: Hitting the Ground Running (2nd edition, 1996) and The
Modern Presidency (4th edition, 2004). He has also published many
articles on the presidency and public management in professional
journals, reference works, and the popular press.
Professor Pfiffner is an
elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration, and
he has been a panel member or on project staffs of the Volcker
Commission, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and
the National Academy of Sciences. His professional experience includes
service in the Director's Office of the U.S. Office of Personnel
Management (1980-81), and he has been a member of the faculty at the
University of California, Riverside and California State University,
Fullerton. In 1990 he received the Distinguished Faculty Award at
George Mason University, and in 1999 he received the College of Arts
and Sciences Scholarship Award. While serving with the 25th Infantry
Division (1/8 Artillery) in 1970 he received the Army Commendation
Medal for Valor in Vietnam and Cambodia.
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 WALTER PINCUS is a
Washington Post staff writer where he has worked off and on since 1971
covering the intelligence community and other national news subjects.
He also served as executive editor of the New Republic from 1972-1975,
and worked at Washington Star, The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times, among others.
From Watergate to Iran-Contra to the investigation to nuclear weapons
and arms control, Mr. Pincus has covered many of the nation's most
important news events. The series of articles he wrote on the Bush
Administration's review of then presidential candidate Bill Clinton's
passport records lead to the appointment of an independent counsel.
His specialization in intelligence issues began with his coverage of
the Aldrich Ames spy-case and its aftermath.
In addition to writing,
Mr. Pincus has been a consultant to NBC News, and later CBS News,
developing, writing, and producing segments for a variety of entities
within the networks. In 1992, he co-produced with CBS News,
"Watergate: The Secret Story," that included extensive coverage in
both the Washington Post and in Newsweek magazine. A year later, he
directed another combined research among the three organizations which
produced a major package of articles, and a two-hour documentary
entitled, "The Kennedy Assassination," which coincided with the 30th
anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death.
Mr. Pincus has won several
journalism prizes, including the George Polk Award in 1977 for stories
in the Washington Post exposing the neutron warhead; the 1961 Page One
Award for magazine reporting in the Reporter; and an Emmy award for
writing on the 1981 CBS News documentary series, "Defense of the
United States." He was chosen to be a visiting fellow and lecturer in
political science at Yale College in fall 1988.
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PAUL L. POWELL has over 3 decades of direct experience in congressional
relations. Most recently, he was the vice president of Federal Government Affairs
for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), where he was
responsible for interacting with policymakers and key staff in the
congressional and federal branches of government to carry out the
legislative goals of NACDS and its members. He also monitored and
advocated critical legislative policy initiatives in the Congress and
administration that effected NACDS members at the federal level.
Mr. Powell served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Congressional Liaison in the Office of Secretary Tommy Thompson at the US
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). While at HHS, Mr. Powell
managed activities and supervised staff in the Congressional Liaison Office,
assisted with informing leadership and congressional offices about major
Department issues, coordinated with Office of the Secretary divisions and
HHS agencies to provide views on pending legislation and policy decisions,
and acted as the principal contact with key HHS officials to provide
action/responses to congressional inquiries.
Mr. Powell has held numerous congressional and legislative positions over
the past 30 years. He has served as a director at the lobbying firm BKSH &
Associates; chief of staff for US Representative Jack Kingston; director of
congressional affairs for the Bureau of the Census and the International
Trade Administration at the US Department of Commerce; senior legislative
associate at a DC law firm; and the director of Senate congressional affairs
for the US Department of Interior, among numerous other notable positions
working in and with the Congress and the Executive Branch. In addition, he
has provided volunteer assistance for numerous Republican congressional fund
raisers, and at several Republican National Committee nominating
conventions.
Powell, a former US Navy Officer, is a graduate of Emory University with a
BA in Political Science; the School of Law at the
University of Georgia with a JD; and completed the course of study at the George Washington University Masters in Legislative Affairs program.
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