Barrett ("Barry") Anderson
Barrett ("Barry") Anderson (born January 9, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American and international government budget official known for his work in developing and implementing budget rules and processes. He is a former Chief of the Public Expenditures and Budgeting Division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, budget expert at the International Monetary Fund, Acting and Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget Office, and senior career civil servant at the White House Office of Management and Budget. Anderson most recently served as the Deputy Director at the National Governors Association.
Career[edit]
Office of Management and Budget[edit]
Anderson started his career in 1972 analyzing housing and transportation programs at the General Accounting Office. After a few years, he moved to the Office of Management and Budget where he rose to be the senior civil servant leading OMB's 500 career professionals and directing OMB's largest division, the Budget Review Division.[1][2] In that role, he helped draft and implement every major budget law enacted in the 1980s and 1990s, including the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act[3][4][5], the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 and its revisions[6][7][8][9], and the Credit Reform Act. He led the implementation of the caps on discretionary spending and the PAYGO mechanism, was OMB's "institutional memory" on conceptual budget issues, and provided President Reagan's, Bush's and Clinton's Budget Directors with unbiased, expert, objective, nonpolitical advice on budget issues ranging from shut downs to sequesters, from debt limits to line item vetoes, from furloughs to performance budgeting.[10][11]
Congressional Budget Office[edit]
After leaving OMB, Anderson, worked for a private consulting firm for a year, and then was recruited to join the Congressional Budget Office as its Deputy Director, where he led the expansion of the CBO units that analyze revenues, health spending, and long-term projections. In 2003 he served as CBO's Acting Director.[12]
On January 31, 2001, Anderson testified before the Senate Budget Committee that "[u]nder current policies, total surpluses would accumulate to an estimated...$5.6 trillion over the coming decade [FY 2002 to FY 20011]. Such large surpluses would be sufficient by 2006 to pay off all debt held by the public...".[13] On January 30, 2003, Anderson testified that because of legislative actions to increase spending and cut taxes and because of substantially weaker-than-expected economy, CBO projected that deficits had returned.[14] In 2012, CBO released a report that stated that the federal government's "cumulative deficit over the 10-year period amounted to 6.1 trillion-a swing of $11.7 trillion from the January 2001 projections."[15] Although the CBO's projections described in Anderson's testimony may have contributed to the enactment of tax cuts, especially in 2001, more of the dissipation of the projected surplus came from enactment of new spending ($4.3 trillion) and lower-that-expected economic performance and technical changes ($3.2 trillion) than from the enactment of tax cuts ($2.8 trillion).
International Monetary Fund and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development[edit]
In 2003, Anderson was recruited by the International Monetary Fund to help countries around the world improve their budget processes and information. After 2 years at IMF, Anderson joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris where for 5 years he led OECD's public expenditures and budgeting unit. By the time he returned to Washington D.C. in 2010, Anderson consulted for a variety of domestic and international organizations and countries, including testimony before the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.[16] Anderson currently serves on the OECD Advisory Panel on Budgeting and Public Expenditures.[17]
National Governors Association[edit]
His consulting was short lived, however, as in 2011 he was recruited to join the National Governors Association as its Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer. After leaving NGA in 2015, Anderson has lectured on budgeting from a non-political perspective to students at American University and George Washington University, and to senior civil servants at Office of Personnel Management training facilities.
Anderson received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois, an MBA from the University of Washington in Seattle, and did post-graduate work in econometrics at George Washington University. Anderson has been active with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget since its inception and has been a member of the CRFB since he left CBO.[18] Anderson was named the third recipient of the Federal Budgeting Career Legacy Award from George Mason University.[19]
References[edit]
- ↑ Dame, Philip R.; Martin, Bernard H. "The Evolution of OMB". The Office of Management and Budget. p. 44.
- ↑ "Office of Management and Budget".
- ↑ Joyce, Philip G. (2011). The Congressional Budget Office. Georgetown University Press. Search this book on
- ↑ "Idea Rebounds: Automatic Cuts to Curb Deficits".
- ↑ "1985 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act - Timeline - Slaying the Dragon of Debt - Regional Oral History Office - University of California, Berkeley".
- ↑ Darmin, Richard; Simon; Schuster (1996). Who's In Control? Polar Politics and the Sensible Center. Search this book on
- ↑ "Remember, Remember, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990".
- ↑ "A Budget Deal That Did reduce the Deficit".
- ↑ "1990 Budget Enforcement Act - Timeline - Slaying the Dragon of Debt - Regional Oral History Office - University of California, Berkeley".
- ↑ Krawzak, Paul M. (2018). Worries Fade as Debt Grows. CG. Search this book on
- ↑ Cogan, John F. (2017). The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S Federal Entitlement Programs. Stanford University Press. Search this book on
- ↑ "History - Congressional Budget Office".
- ↑ CBO Testimony, Statement of Barry B. Anderson, Deputy Director, The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2002-2011, before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate, January 31, 2001. See https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/107th-congress-2001-2002/reports/entire-testimony.pdf.
- ↑ CBO Testimony, Statement of Barry B. Anderson, Acting Director, The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2004-2013, before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate, January 30, 2001. See https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/108th-congress-2003-2004/reports/01-30-03-senatetestimony.pdf.
- ↑ See https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/112th-congress-2011-2012/reports/06-07-changessince2001baseline.pdf.
- ↑ "The National Commission of Fiscal Responsibility and Reform" (PDF).
- ↑ "OECD Advisory Panel on Budgeting and Public Expenditures".
- ↑ "Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget - Board Members".
- ↑ "Fiscal Guardians | Centers on the Public Service | George Mason University". psc.gmu.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
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