Orszag '91 tapped to lead Congressional Budget Office

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<p>In a move that should delight fiscal hawks, Democratic congressional budget lawmakers tapped Peter Orszag, a social security guru and former economic advisor to the Clinton administration, to head up the Congressional Budget Office.</p>

<p>A widely respected fiscal economist, Orszag is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington, and the director of The Hamilton Project, a sort of Democratic cabinet-in-waiting housed at Brookings. </p>

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<p>Orszag, an economics major at Princeton and a Marshall Scholar, received his master’s and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. His senior thesis was entitled “Congressional Oversight of the Federal Reserve: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives.”</p>

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