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of the people who have written for us or taught at previous TCN and CQ programs include:
TODD TATELMAN
is a legislative attorney for the Congressional Research Service’s American Law Division. Todd specializes and advises Members of Congress, Committees, and Staff in the areas of Congressional Laws and Procedure (oversight and investigations), Constitutional Law, Transportation Law, and International Trade Law.
A 2003 cum laude graduate of the Catholic University of America’s, Columbus School of Law in Washington, DC, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2000 from Boston University.
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 KATHRYN DUNN TENPAS
is a visiting fellow with the Governance Studies division of the Brookings Institution, and associate director of the Washington Semester Program of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a fellow of the Governance Institute.
Dr. Tenpas served as a member of The White House 2001 Project, where she prepared a study of the White House Office of the Staff Secretary to aid in the 2000-2001 presidential transition. She also served two terms on the Board of the American Political Science Association's Presidency Research Group, a national organization for presidency scholars.
Dr. Tenpas' academic positions include her current affiliation with the University of Pennsylvania, and an associate professorship in the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida. While at the University of South Florida, Dr. Tenpas additionally directed the Political Science Honors Program and the Washington, D.C. internship program. From 1992-1993, she was a guest scholar with Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Dr. Tenpas has authored the book Presidents as Candidates: Inside the White House for the Presidential Campaign, and numerous articles, papers and chapters. A sampling of recent publications include a chapter in The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2004 called, "How Incumbent Presidents Run for Reelection," a Brookings Review article, titled "Words vs. Deeds: President George W. Bush and Polling;" a Journal of Politics article "Explaining Increasing Turnover Rates Among Presidential Advisers, 1929-1997," co-authored with Matthew Dickinson; and a chapter in Workways of Governance, coauthored with Karen Hult, published jointly by Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute in the Fall of 2003.
The recipient of a 2001 Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life grant to study the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Dr. Tenpas released the report, "Can an Office Change a Country?" in February 2002 and is continuing her examination of this issue.
Dr. Tenpas holds a PhD and MA from the University of Virginia, and a BA from Georgetown University.
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CLAUDIA THURBER, a veteran of over twenty-two years of federal government service, was the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Counsel for Health Standards until her retirement in February 2006. She is an expert on the regulatory process. Her responsibilities included working closely with OSHA management and the Office of the Solicitor of Labor in the development and promulgation of health and safety standards, serving as liaison to the Office of Management and Budget and other government agencies on regulatory issues. She planned and managed the standards work of staff attorneys, which gave her an opportunity to put into practice her experience as project attorney for some of OSHA’s most important and far reaching standards that protect workers from the hazards of blood borne pathogens, petrochemicals, power generation, and fire in shipyards.
Ms. Thurber has spoken at numerous professional meetings, including the National Safety Council annual meeting. Most recently, she gave the keynote speech at the first meeting of the Ecuador chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers and presented current issues in regulation to a group of academics, government managers and graduate students at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. She has taught Political Science courses at The American University.
Ms. Thurber holds a JD from The Washington College of Law at The American University, an MA in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, and a BA from Washington State University.
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 JAMES A. THURBER is professor of government and director of the Center
for Congressional and Presidential Studies and the Campaign Management and Lobbying
Institutes at the American University in Washington, D.C. He has been on the faculty at
the American University since 1974 and was honored as the Scholar/Teacher of the Year in
1996. He is also currently the principal investigator of a seven-year study of campaign
conduct sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Dr. Thurber is author and co-author of numerous books and more than fifty articles and
chapters on Congress, congressional-presidential relations, congressional budgeting,
congressional reform, interest groups and lobbying and campaigns and elections. His most
recent publications are Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations,
Setting
Course: A Congressional Management Guide, and Remaking Congress: The Politics of
Congressional Stability and Change.
Dr. Thurber has served in government as a legislative assistant to the late Sen. Hubert
H. Humphrey and Rep. James G. O’Hara; senior staff analyst for Rep. David Obey, and
the Commission on Administrative Review of the House of Representatives, and for Sen.
Adlai Stevenson. He was recently president of the National Capital Area Political Science
Association and the APSA representative to the American Association for the Advancement of
Sciences. He currently serves on the Executive Board of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national
political science honor society.
Dr. Thurber was honored as the Centennial Professor for the 100th Anniversary of
Washington State University in 1990, earned the American University School of Public
Affairs award for the best Research and Publication in 1992 and the award for Outstanding
Service to the University in 1993. He is interviewed frequently on CBS-TV, ABC-TV, NBC-TV,
BBC radio and CNN-TV National Public Radio, C-SPAN, and for major newspapers as an expert
on American politics and government. He has recently served as a consultant to BBC for a
documentary on American politics. Dr. Thurber earned his PhD in political science from
Indiana University in 1973.
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PAT TOWELL
is a specialist in national defense with the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. Prior to joining CRS he was a Senior Fellow at The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). Mr. Towell covered defense policy for Congressional Quarterly for more than 25 years. During that time, he covered the defense budget process each year from presidential submission through final congressional and presidential action. Prior to joining CQ, Mr. Towell was a political science lecturer at California State University in Bakersfield.
He received an AB from Georgetown University, MA from Northwestern University, and PhD from University of Illinois.
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 JIM TOZZI is a member of the Board of
Advisors, Center for Regulatory Effectiveness. He is also the
president of Multinational Business Services, Inc., representing
clients before Federal agencies on regulatory issues.
Previously, Mr. Tozzi served in the Executive Office of the President of the United States as deputy administrator, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), supervising and implementing the Administration's program for overseeing, coordinating and approving all federal regulations. Before that, he served at OMB as assistant director and was responsible for developing a national regulatory policy, reviewing all U.S. governmental information requests affecting U.S. firms, and developing policies for automatic data processing and telecommunications equipment. As chief of the environmental branch of OMB, he served as principal advisor on the content and implementation of federal environmental programs.
From 1964 to 1972, Mr. Tozzi served at the Department of Defense in the Office of the Secretary of the Army and was responsible for the development of the Army Corps of Engineers budget, and served as congressional liaison for budget. He also served in the Office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and was responsible for the development of strategic response plans.
Mr. Tozzi earned a BS in chemical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, a Masters in Retailing from the University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD in economics and business administration from the University of Florida.
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 GENE ULM is a partner with Public Opinion Strategies. Gene has extensive experience polling on behalf of successful U.S. Senate, gubernatorial, congressional, and state legislative campaigns since 1990. His political clients include Members of Congress, mayors, legislative caucuses and business and trade-oriented independent expenditure committees.
In addition, he has polled on ballot issues including taxation, gaming, health care, public education funding, and property rights. He polled on behalf of the campaigns that defeated single-payer health insurance in California and tax shifting in Wisconsin -- both slated to win by many pundits. Gene has also polled on behalf of winning campaigns in New Zealand, Australia, and Russia.
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 ROBERT WALKER
is the President of Wexler & Walker Public
Policy Associates. He spent 20 years in the
U.S. House of Representatives, where he was chairman of the House Science Committee and
chairman of the House Republican leadership. Other key House positions held by Mr. Walker
included vice chairman of the House Budget Committee, member of the Republican Steering
Committee, and member of Speaker Gingrich’s six-person Advisory Group.
As an advocate for scientific research, technology and space programs, Mr. Walker was
the first sitting House member to be awarded NASA’s Distinguished Service Medal in
1996. Mr. Walker has also been a frequent guest on CNN’s "Crossfire" and
National Public Radio shows.
Mr. Walker received a BA in education from Millersville University and an MA in
political science from the University of Delaware. He taught high school social studies,
and was a senior aide to Pennsylvania Representative Edwin Eshleman for 10 years.
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STEPHEN WAYNE is a professor
of government at Georgetown University, where he heads the American
Government section. Dr. Wayne teaches a course on contemporary
policymaking at the Federal Executive Institute, and speaks
regularly on leadership, the presidency, Congress and the electoral
process to professional groups in the United States, Europe, Latin
America and Asia.
Dr. Wayne is the author of five books
on the presidency: The Legislative Presidency, which focuses on how
legislative policy is developed and coordinated with the president
and how it is lobbied for on Capitol Hill; The Road to the White
House (fifth edition), a study of presidential elections and their
implications for governance; The Quest for National Office; Studying
the Presidency; Presidential Leadership (sixth edition); and The
Politics of American Government (second edition). He is frequently
quoted by White House correspondents. He is past president of the
Presidency Research Group and the National Capitol Area Political
Science Association.
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JEFFREY WEINBERG is a legislative attorney at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Executive Office of the President. He is responsible for coordination and clearance of the Administration's testimony before congressional committees on legislation; draft legislation for presentation to Congress; and positions on legislation being considered on the floor of the House and Senate. He also prepares memoranda for the President on legislation awaiting his approval or veto.
In 1995 at the OMB Awards Ceremony commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the founding of OMB, Mr. Weinberg received the Distinguished Service Award "For outstanding contributions over six Presidential Administrations in managing the legislative clearance process on behalf of the OMB Director and the President."
Mr. Weinberg is also Associate Professorial Lecturer in George Washington University's Masters in Legislative Affairs Program where he teaches a course on Executive Branch Decision-making.
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MYRA ENGERS WEINBERG
was Director of Research for the CQ
Weekly before joining the National Restaurant Association. She worked
as a reference librarian at Congressional Quarterly's Library from 1992 to 1998. In that
capacity, she provided detailed research about Congress, politics, and the legislative
process to CQ reporters and staff. She also responded to telephone inquiries from
subscribers and the press, averaging 750 calls per month, on various topics including
content and status of legislation, election process and results, and the workings of
Congress. In addition, Ms. Weinberg provided extensive online searching support using
Washington Alert, NEXIS, DIALOG, and DataTimes systems.
Previously, Ms. Weinberg worked for four years as a reference librarian in the Library
and Information Center of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Washington,
DC.
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 G. KIM WINCUP
was corporate vice president of Science Applications
International Corporation, where his responsibilities included developing corporate opportunities
in Federal DOD (civil/military) Information Services and assisting with general
procurement processes and acquisition reform. He spent seventeen years as counsel to the
House Armed Services Committee and House Veterans Affairs Committee, and as staff director
of the House Armed Services Committee and the Joint Committee on the Organization of
Congress. Three years were spent in the Pentagon in presidentially appointed roles in
personnel and acquisition.
Some professional highlights include serving as counsel to the Committee on Veterans
Affairs working on a special project for the chairman related to encouraging cooperative
efforts between the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He also
served as staff director for the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress with a
mandate for a bipartisan, bicameral "full and complete study" of Congress. Mr.
Wincup was appointed assistant secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition) and served as
service acquisition executive responsible for the management and oversight of the United
States Air Force’s acquisition program. Mr. Wincup was also appointed as assistant
secretary of the Army (manpower and reserve affairs). He was responsible for the
Army’s active duty, reserve and civilian personnel during the post Cold War drawdown
and the Desert Storm operation.
Mr. Wincup has a BA in political science from DePauw University, and received his JD
from the University of Illinois School of Law.
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 WILLIAM H. ZELIFF, JR. was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990 from the first district of New Hampshire and retired in 1997. As Deputy Whip, Mr. Zeliff helped create and implement the House agenda. His service as Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs and Criminal Justice of the House Government Reform Committee was instrumental in moving the drug issue to center stage during the 1996 presidential election. He was a member of the House Transportation Committee and served with distinction on the Surface Transportation, Water Resources and Aviation Subcommittees. Mr. Zeliff authored the "A to Z Budget Cutting Tool" used by Members of Congress to encourage fiscal responsibility.
Mr. Zeliff successfully rebuilt and operated three small businesses, winning the New Hampshire Restaurant and Lodging Association's prestigious Innkeeper of the Year award in 1988. He is Senior Counselor with The Livingston Group.
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