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词条 Robert Bixby
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  1. Education and early career

  2. Career and work at The Concord Coalition

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Notability|Biographies|date=August 2010}}Robert L. Bixby is the Executive Director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan grassroots organization that educates the public about fiscal responsibility. The Coalition was founded in 1992, and Bixby was named the Executive Director in 1999. Bixby had previously served as the Coalition's Policy Director, National Field Director, and a variety of other roles since 1992.[1]

Education and early career

Bixby received his bachelor's degree in political science from American University, a J.D. from George Mason University School of Law, and a master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Before coming to the Concord Coalition, Bixby served as the Chief Staff Attorney at the Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Career and work at The Concord Coalition

In 1992, Bixby worked on the presidential campaign of the late U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas (D-Massachusetts) and became the first Virginia State Director of the Coalition. (Tsongas co-founded the Concord Coalition.) In 1995, Bixby became National Field Director at the Coalition, then Policy Director in 1997, before being named Executive Director in 1999.[2]

Bixby regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress regarding the nation's fiscal policies,[3] national budget plans,[4] and budget deficits and government waste.[5] He was a key member of the Coalition's Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, which began in 2006.[6] The tour runs in conjunction with the Peter G. Peterson Foundation in cities around the country to educate Americans about the growing national debt.

In a PBS News Hour program in November 2008, Bixby was introduced along with former Congressional Budget Office director Robert Reischauer as "two people who have long followed the [federal] budget, the lobbying, and the fights surrounding it, and all the fine print in between."[7] During the segment, Bixby identified programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as spending areas that should be reassessed because they "run on autopilot." Bixby also noted that "a lot of waste...is in the eye of the beholder...What is somebody's waste is somebody else's lifeline from the federal government."[8]

The Concord Coalition's efforts to raise public awareness, with Bixby touring across the nation, plays a key role in the 2008 documentary film I.O.U.S.A.[9]

Bixby is frequently cited by the media, speaking on behalf of the Concord Coalition, on issues like the federal deficit and federal budget. He has been quoted by newspapers like the Washington Post on the fiscal impact of the 2010 federal health care reform bill,[10] and the New York Times on how to address the national debt.[11] At the start of 2009, he warned that the federal deficit would have serious long-term consequences and that certain policies like permanent tax cuts and expanding entitlement programs to deal with the recession would only drive the deficit up further.[12] In January 2013, he was cited by the Chicago Tribune for his criticism of Congress’ dealing with the fiscal cliff crisis, stating that the congressional deal "solves no difficult problems." [13]

Bixby served as a member of the Debt Reduction Task Force at the Bipartisan Policy Center.[14]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://robinson.gsu.edu/students/wakeup/bixby.html|title=Robert Bixby Biography|work=Georgia State University J. Mack Robinson College of Business|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818230314/http://robinson.gsu.edu/students/wakeup/bixby.html|archivedate=2010-08-18|df=}}
2. ^Robert Bixby Biography
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.budget.senate.gov/democratic/testimony/2007/BixbyS2063testimony103107.pdf|work=Senate Budget Committee|title=Statement of Robert L. Bixby on Responsible Fiscal Action Act of 2007|date=October 31, 2007|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710102126/http://budget.senate.gov/democratic/testimony/2007/BixbyS2063testimony103107.pdf|archivedate=July 10, 2010|df=}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://budget.senate.gov/democratic/testimony/2002/bixby_hrng020602.pdf|work=Senate Budget Committee|title=Testimony of Robert L. Bixby on the President's FY2003 Budget|date=February 6, 2002|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710105024/http://budget.senate.gov/democratic/testimony/2002/bixby_hrng020602.pdf |archivedate=July 10, 2010|df=}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.concordcoalition.org/publications/2009/1216/robert-bixbys-testimony-subcommittee-senate-homeland-security-and-government-|work=Concord Coalition|title=Robert Bixby's Testimony before a Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee|date=December 16, 2009}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.jsonline.com/business/29571969.html|work=Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel|title=National debt makes U.S. vulnerable, experts say|date=June 30, 2008}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec08/budget_11-25.html|work=PBS News Hour|title=Obama Pledges New Effort to Tighten Federal Budget|date=November 25, 2008}}
8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec08/budget_11-25.html|work=PBS News Hour|title=Obama Pledges New Effort to Tighten Federal Budget|date=November 25, 2008}}
9. ^http://www.concordcoalition.org/iousa/iousa-movie
10. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/29/AR2009112902952.html|work=Washington Post|title=In health-care reform, no deficit cure|date=November 30, 2009 | first=Lori | last=Montgomery}}
11. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/business/23rates.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=robert%20bixby&st=cse|work=New York Times|title=Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government|date=November 22, 2009 | first=Edmund L. | last=Andrews}}
12. ^{{Cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/10/news/economy/treasury_budget_deficit_Nov08/index.htm|work=CNN Money|title=U.S. deficit climbs to $402 billion|date=January 7, 2009 | first=Jeanne | last=Sahadi}}
13. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-oped-0106-chapman-20130106,0,4155127.column|work=Chicago Tribune|title=An exercise in fiscal evasion|date=January 6, 2013|first=Steve| last=Chapman}}
14. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/debt-reduction-task-force-members |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-07-09 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213033551/http://bipartisanpolicy.org/debt-reduction-task-force-members |archivedate=2010-12-13 |df= }} "Debt Reduction Task Force Members"

External links

  • Concord Coalition Website
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvhHQrRf6Tc The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour Online – Robert Bixby]
  • {{C-SPAN|robertbixby}}
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