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Charles Konigsberg has served in senior-level positions in the U.S. Senate and the Administration, earning bipartisan respect for his knowledge of the Federal Budget and legislative process.

He served as a senior staff member in the United States Senate for thirteen years, becoming a recognized expert on the Federal Budget. Most recently, he served four years as General Counsel to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) at the Senate Finance Committee where he advised the Senator on budget, health, tax and constitutional issues.  As General Counsel he also managed the Committee's half trillion-dollar deficit reduction legislation for Chairman Moynihan.

 

In the Executive Branch, Mr. Konigsberg spent over four years in the Clinton White House serving as an Assistant Director at the Office of Management and Budget, where he was responsible for achieving consensus on President Clinton's Statements of Administration Policy on a broad range of national issues.  He also represented the Administration in the Senate during consideration of the President's budget proposals.

Mr. Konigsberg began his Senate career as Staff Attorney at the Senate Budget Committee where he wrote the first two editions of the Committee's explanation of the congressional budget, authorization, and appropriations processes. He moved on to the Senate Rules and Administration Committee for six years, ultimately serving as Chief Counsel on the Committee's Minority Staff.

Mr. Konigsberg served as Director of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Corporation for National and Community Service, the agency that administers AmeriCorps.

In 1999 Mr. Konigsberg was awarded for Outstanding Service to the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President.

Mr. Konigsberg is the author of the newly released America's Priorities: How the U.S. Government Raises and Spends $3,000,000,000,000 (Trillion) Per Year, which has received bipartisan praise.

Mr. Konigsberg writes and edits for the Concord Coalition a highly regarded weekly newsletter, the Washington Budget Report, and is the creator of GovBudget.com, a unique user-friendly portal to the Federal Budget. He has appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Bloomberg Radio as an expert on the Federal Budget.

He 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.