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Dan L. Crippen served, until January 3, 2003, as the fifth director of the Congressional Budget Office. Dr. Crippen, who was appointed in February 1999, has served in senior positions in the White House and the United States Senate and is a specialist in issues relating to the federal budget, health care and retirement.
From 1987 to 1989, Dr. Crippen served as an adviser to President Reagan on all issues relating to domestic policy, including the preparation and presentation of the federal budget. In the Senate, he served as chief counsel and economic policy adviser to the Senate Majority Leader from 1981 to 1985. He has provided service to several national commissions.
Dr. Crippen also has substantial experience in the private sector. Before joining CBO, he was a principal with Washington Counsel, a law and consulting firm. He has also served as executive director of the Merrill Lynch International Advisory Council and as a founding partner and senior vice president of the Duberstein Group.
Since his departure from the Congressional Budget Office, Dr. Crippen has served as chairman of a panel advising NASA on implementing changes after the Columbia disaster as well as serving on the Aeronautics and Safety Advisory Panel for NASA; worked with companies emerging from bankruptcy; testified before Congress and the Federal Trade Commission; advised stock exchanges on the future of financial markets. He is a consultant for health care providers including developers of cardiac devices and bio-engineered pharmaceuticals. He serves on several boards of companies in the heath care industry, both public and private; served on the national nominating committee for the National Association of Securities Dealers; conducts research on health care; and contributes articles to journals and newspapers. He recently chaired the Quadrennial Social Security Technical Advisory Panel, reviewing the work of the Social Security actuaries and advises office holders at all levels on domestic policy. Crippen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Economic Association and serves on Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the CBO Panel of Economic Advisors. For the 2008 presidential election, he served as the domestic policy adviser for Senator John McCain's campaign.
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