Charles Konigsberg
Director of the Economic Policy Project
ckonigsberg@bipartisanpolicy.org
Charles Konigsberg, Director of the Economic Policy Project at The Bipartisan Policy Center, has served in senior-level positions in the U.S. Senate and the White House Office of Management and Budget.
He served as a senior staff member in the United States Senate for thirteen years, becoming a recognized expert on the federal budget, health policy, and entitlement programs. He served four years as General Counsel and Chief Health Counsel to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) at the Senate Finance Committee. As General Counsel he also managed the Committee’s half trillion-dollar deficit reduction legislation.
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 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 for Chairman Pete Domenici (R-NM), 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 Committee for six years, ultimately serving as Minority Chief Counsel.
Mr. Konigsberg also served as Director of Congressional Affairs at the Corporation for National and Community Service, the agency that administers AmeriCorps, during the Bush Administration.
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 America’s Priorities: How the U.S. Government Raises and Spends $3 Trillion Per Year (2008) which has received bipartisan praise.
Mr. Konigsberg writes a highly regarded weekly newsletter, the Washington Budget Report, which is published jointly with the Concord Coalition – a nationwide, non-partisan organization advocating responsible fiscal policy. Mr. Konigsberg served as Chief Budget Counsel at the Concord Coalition.
He has appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Bloomberg Radio, Fox Business News, and ABC Radio’s Money Talk as an expert on the federal budget and fiscal policy.
Mr. Konigsberg is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University teaching budgetary politics in the graduate school of political management.
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 an executive editor of the Law Review.
