George
Krumbhaar
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After graduating from Columbia Law
School, George served in the Treasury Department's Office of General Counsel;
and then 18 years on Capitol Hill as Minority (Republican) Counsel to the Joint
Economic Committee, Director of Domestic Policy for Senator John Glenn (D-OH),
Chief of Staff for Representative Bill Orton (D-UT), and Associate Staff of the
House Budget Committee. In each of these capacities, George covered a wide range
of legislative issue areas, concentrating in budget, tax and appropriations. He
was one of many who helped in the drafting and passage of the original
Congressional Budget Act, and participated on a staff level in the debate over
the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act.
George is the founder (in 1996) of USBudget.com, which under his
watch grew into one of the premier tracking services in Washington for budget
and appropriations developments. USBudget.com is currently a division of
GalleryWatch.com/Roll Call an Economist Group company.
In 2003 George founded BBA Systems, LLC, which publishes Federal
BudgetObserver, a CD-based product that charts and analyzes federal budget
trends.
George maintains an active speaking schedule on a wide range of
specialized issues concerning Congress and federal appropriations. He has
published numerous analyses and op-eds on budget, appropriations and tax
matters.
In addition to his law degree, George has an undergraduate
degree from Harvard University and a Master of Arts degree from the Johns
Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He serves on the
board of Directors of the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis
(2002-present). He is a member of the DC Bar.
Scott Cox |
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Scott has spent 13
years analyzing and reporting on
legislation moving through Congress, starting on Capitol Hill as a press
assistant and legislative correspondent in the U.S. Senate. He brought his
Capitol Hill experience to the Washington Post's LEGI-SLATE in 1998, where he
covered daily legislative developments in both the House and Senate. After LEGI-SLATE
dissolved in 1999, he joined GalleryWatch and spent eight years with the company
tracking and covering legislation -- the last five years as managing editor of
USBudget.com. When Roll Call acquired GalleryWatch in the fall of 2006, Scott
became a regular contributing writer to CongressNow, Roll Call's legislative
wire service.
Scott has landed exclusive interviews with key lawmakers such as
House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-SC) and former Senate Budget
Committee Chairman Judd Gregg (R-NH), and has extensive ties to Capitol Hill
staffers.
As a testament to his accuracy and objectivity in covering daily
developments on Capitol Hill, Scott was cited by the esteemed Congressional
Research Service in a July 2007 report analyzing the fiscal year 2007 Iraq
supplemental appropriations bill.
Some of Scott's speaking engagements have been alongside key
lawmakers and Washington insiders. In December 2006, for example, Scott
participated in a roundtable hosted by Roll Call that also included House
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen
(D-MD), Morton Kondracke of Fox News' Beltway Boys, and election analyst
Stuart Rothenberg.
Scott is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington in
Fredericksburg, VA.
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