Republican Staff Director, Worker and Family Support Subcommittee, Committee on Ways and Means, US House of Representatives
Anne DeCesaro has been the Republican Staff Director since 2016 of what is now the Worker and Family Support subcommittee, formerly Human Resources, of the Committee on Ways and Means. The subcommittee has jurisdiction over a range of domestic social programs including foster care and adoption, home visiting, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and the others. She previously served as professional staff for the subcommittee from 2011 to 2014, covering unemployment insurance, child support enforcement, and Supplemental Security Income. In between, she was the lead staffer on the House Agriculture Committee subcommittee on nutrition which oversees the nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. Earlier in her career she spent a number of years at the Office of Management and Budget and the Social Security Administration, working on programs for low-income individuals and families. She received her bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s College and her master’s degree from The John Hopkins University.
Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
Steve Redburn is a distinguished lecturer, budget advisor, and authority on financial management, government performance, and public policy with over 25 years of experience as a senior government official in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Since 2004, Professor Redburn has been a professorial lecturer in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy, where he teaches a course on the institutions and processes of federal budgeting. Dr. Redburn has directed fiscal studies for the Center of the Public Service in the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. As a participant in deliberations of the National Budgeting Roundtable since 2014, he has helped to lead research on reform of the federal government’s budget process. In 2017 and 2018, he consulted on budget processes in Indonesia for the World Bank. He co-authored a 2018 National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) white paper presenting a long-term strategy and recommendations to strengthen the federal government’s capacity to perform.
In 2010 and 2011, Redburn directed a project on budget process reform for the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he supervised preparation of the Commission’s December, 2010, report, Getting Back in the Black, recommending comprehensive reform of the U.S. federal government budget process, and edited a series of papers on additional reform options in 2011. From January to August 2007 Dr. Redburn served as Senior Budget Advisor on the USAID Kosovo V project, where he assisted the Ministry of Finance and Economy on a range of issues and advised the budget director and staff. From 2008 to May 2014, he was a scholar and study director for the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. He directed a study of high rates of incarceration in the U.S. in 2013-2014 and co-edited the final report. In 2008 – 2009, he directed a study of the fiscal future of the U.S. for NAS and NAPA, developing and assessing spending, revenue, and process reform options to put the U.S. on a sustainable budget path; the final study report, Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future, was published in November, 2009.
Dr. Redburn is an elected fellow and member of the board of directors (2013 – 2018) of the National Academy of Public Administration. As a Senior Executive in the Executive Office of the President (OMB) until his retirement from the federal service in 2006, Steve Redburn advised the President's senior staff on all aspects of budget, policy, legislation, program design and performance, and regulations concerning major Federal agencies and programs.
Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
Molly Reynolds is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings. She studies Congress, with an emphasis on how congressional rules and procedure affect domestic policy outcomes.
She is the author of the book, "Exceptions to the Rule: The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate," which explores creation, use, and consequences of the budget reconciliation process and other procedures that prevent filibusters in the U.S. Senate. Current research projects include work on oversight in the House of Representatives, congressional reform, and the congressional budget process. She also supervises the maintenance of "Vital Statistics on Congress," Brookings’s long-running resource on the first branch of government.
Reynolds received her Ph.D. in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan and her A.B. in government from Smith College, and previously served as a senior research coordinator in the Governance Studies program at Brookings. In addition, she has served as an instructor at George Mason University.
Republican Staff Director, Worker and Family Support Subcommittee, Committee on Ways and Means, US House of Representatives
Anne DeCesaro has been the Republican Staff Director since 2016 of what is now the Worker and Family Support subcommittee, formerly Human Resources, of the Committee on Ways and Means. The subcommittee has jurisdiction over a range of domestic social programs including foster care and adoption, home visiting, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and the others. She previously served as professional staff for the subcommittee from 2011 to 2014, covering unemployment insurance, child support enforcement, and Supplemental Security Income. In between, she was the lead staffer on the House Agriculture Committee subcommittee on nutrition which oversees the nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. Earlier in her career she spent a number of years at the Office of Management and Budget and the Social Security Administration, working on programs for low-income individuals and families. She received her bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s College and her master’s degree from The John Hopkins University.
Vice President, Networks, The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
Nathan Kaczmarek is Vice President for Networks at the Federalist Society. He began his legal career in Detroit representing nationwide clients in all phases of healthcare litigation and complex medical malpractice claims. He has since served as a Senior Legal and Policy Advisor in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Counsel for the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management in the U.S. Senate. Prior to overseeing the Networks, he was Director of the Practice Groups, the Regulatory Transparency Project, and the Article I Initiative for the Federalist Society.
Nathan holds degrees from Hillsdale College and Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He is a Liaison Representative for The Administrative Conference of the United States. He also serves as Vice President of the Associates of St. John Bosco, a Virginia based non-profit dedicated to Catholic high school and college students.
Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
Steve Redburn is a distinguished lecturer, budget advisor, and authority on financial management, government performance, and public policy with over 25 years of experience as a senior government official in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Since 2004, Professor Redburn has been a professorial lecturer in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy, where he teaches a course on the institutions and processes of federal budgeting. Dr. Redburn has directed fiscal studies for the Center of the Public Service in the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. As a participant in deliberations of the National Budgeting Roundtable since 2014, he has helped to lead research on reform of the federal government’s budget process. In 2017 and 2018, he consulted on budget processes in Indonesia for the World Bank. He co-authored a 2018 National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) white paper presenting a long-term strategy and recommendations to strengthen the federal government’s capacity to perform.
In 2010 and 2011, Redburn directed a project on budget process reform for the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he supervised preparation of the Commission’s December, 2010, report, Getting Back in the Black, recommending comprehensive reform of the U.S. federal government budget process, and edited a series of papers on additional reform options in 2011. From January to August 2007 Dr. Redburn served as Senior Budget Advisor on the USAID Kosovo V project, where he assisted the Ministry of Finance and Economy on a range of issues and advised the budget director and staff. From 2008 to May 2014, he was a scholar and study director for the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. He directed a study of high rates of incarceration in the U.S. in 2013-2014 and co-edited the final report. In 2008 – 2009, he directed a study of the fiscal future of the U.S. for NAS and NAPA, developing and assessing spending, revenue, and process reform options to put the U.S. on a sustainable budget path; the final study report, Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future, was published in November, 2009.
Dr. Redburn is an elected fellow and member of the board of directors (2013 – 2018) of the National Academy of Public Administration. As a Senior Executive in the Executive Office of the President (OMB) until his retirement from the federal service in 2006, Steve Redburn advised the President's senior staff on all aspects of budget, policy, legislation, program design and performance, and regulations concerning major Federal agencies and programs.
Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
Molly Reynolds is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings. She studies Congress, with an emphasis on how congressional rules and procedure affect domestic policy outcomes.
She is the author of the book, "Exceptions to the Rule: The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate," which explores creation, use, and consequences of the budget reconciliation process and other procedures that prevent filibusters in the U.S. Senate. Current research projects include work on oversight in the House of Representatives, congressional reform, and the congressional budget process. She also supervises the maintenance of "Vital Statistics on Congress," Brookings’s long-running resource on the first branch of government.
Reynolds received her Ph.D. in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan and her A.B. in government from Smith College, and previously served as a senior research coordinator in the Governance Studies program at Brookings. In addition, she has served as an instructor at George Mason University.
Republican Staff Director, Worker and Family Support Subcommittee, Committee on Ways and Means, US House of Representatives
Anne DeCesaro has been the Republican Staff Director since 2016 of what is now the Worker and Family Support subcommittee, formerly Human Resources, of the Committee on Ways and Means. The subcommittee has jurisdiction over a range of domestic social programs including foster care and adoption, home visiting, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and the others. She previously served as professional staff for the subcommittee from 2011 to 2014, covering unemployment insurance, child support enforcement, and Supplemental Security Income. In between, she was the lead staffer on the House Agriculture Committee subcommittee on nutrition which oversees the nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. Earlier in her career she spent a number of years at the Office of Management and Budget and the Social Security Administration, working on programs for low-income individuals and families. She received her bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s College and her master’s degree from The John Hopkins University.
Vice President, Networks, The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
Nathan Kaczmarek is Vice President for Networks at the Federalist Society. He began his legal career in Detroit representing nationwide clients in all phases of healthcare litigation and complex medical malpractice claims. He has since served as a Senior Legal and Policy Advisor in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Counsel for the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management in the U.S. Senate. Prior to overseeing the Networks, he was Director of the Practice Groups, the Regulatory Transparency Project, and the Article I Initiative for the Federalist Society.
Nathan holds degrees from Hillsdale College and Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He is a Liaison Representative for The Administrative Conference of the United States. He also serves as Vice President of the Associates of St. John Bosco, a Virginia based non-profit dedicated to Catholic high school and college students.
Professorial Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
Steve Redburn is a distinguished lecturer, budget advisor, and authority on financial management, government performance, and public policy with over 25 years of experience as a senior government official in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Since 2004, Professor Redburn has been a professorial lecturer in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy, where he teaches a course on the institutions and processes of federal budgeting. Dr. Redburn has directed fiscal studies for the Center of the Public Service in the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. As a participant in deliberations of the National Budgeting Roundtable since 2014, he has helped to lead research on reform of the federal government’s budget process. In 2017 and 2018, he consulted on budget processes in Indonesia for the World Bank. He co-authored a 2018 National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) white paper presenting a long-term strategy and recommendations to strengthen the federal government’s capacity to perform.
In 2010 and 2011, Redburn directed a project on budget process reform for the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he supervised preparation of the Commission’s December, 2010, report, Getting Back in the Black, recommending comprehensive reform of the U.S. federal government budget process, and edited a series of papers on additional reform options in 2011. From January to August 2007 Dr. Redburn served as Senior Budget Advisor on the USAID Kosovo V project, where he assisted the Ministry of Finance and Economy on a range of issues and advised the budget director and staff. From 2008 to May 2014, he was a scholar and study director for the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. He directed a study of high rates of incarceration in the U.S. in 2013-2014 and co-edited the final report. In 2008 – 2009, he directed a study of the fiscal future of the U.S. for NAS and NAPA, developing and assessing spending, revenue, and process reform options to put the U.S. on a sustainable budget path; the final study report, Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future, was published in November, 2009.
Dr. Redburn is an elected fellow and member of the board of directors (2013 – 2018) of the National Academy of Public Administration. As a Senior Executive in the Executive Office of the President (OMB) until his retirement from the federal service in 2006, Steve Redburn advised the President's senior staff on all aspects of budget, policy, legislation, program design and performance, and regulations concerning major Federal agencies and programs.
Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
Molly Reynolds is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings. She studies Congress, with an emphasis on how congressional rules and procedure affect domestic policy outcomes.
She is the author of the book, "Exceptions to the Rule: The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate," which explores creation, use, and consequences of the budget reconciliation process and other procedures that prevent filibusters in the U.S. Senate. Current research projects include work on oversight in the House of Representatives, congressional reform, and the congressional budget process. She also supervises the maintenance of "Vital Statistics on Congress," Brookings’s long-running resource on the first branch of government.
Reynolds received her Ph.D. in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan and her A.B. in government from Smith College, and previously served as a senior research coordinator in the Governance Studies program at Brookings. In addition, she has served as an instructor at George Mason University.
Necessary & Proper Episode 44: All the President's Budgets: Who should be setting federal budget priorities?
Anne DeCesaro, Steve Redburn, Molly Reynolds
On May 30, 2019, the Federalist Society's Article I Initiative hosted a panel at the...
All the President's Budgets: Who should be setting federal budget priorities?
Anne DeCesaro, Nathan Kaczmarek, Steve Redburn, Molly Reynolds
Article I Initiative
On May 30, 2019, the Federalist Society's Article I Initiative hosted a panel at the...
All the President's Budgets: Who should be setting federal budget priorities?
Anne DeCesaro, Nathan Kaczmarek, Steve Redburn, Molly Reynolds
Article I Initiative
On May 30, 2019, the Federalist Society's Article I Initiative hosted a panel at the...