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James M. Verdier, a lecturer in public policy at the K-School who worked under Rivlin in the Congressional Budget Office, says he believes Rivlin's research will have a significant impact on American politics and the presidential campaign...
Before her job at the Brookings Institute, Rivlin spent eight years as the first director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan office that provides Congress with budget information and analysis...
...built an institute from scratch and built it into a crucial part of the politicizing process in Washington," says Verdier, who was the head of tax analysis at the CBO under Rivlin...
...Rivlin, however, was occasionally under fire from lawmakers in Washington who claimed she acquired too much influence in the budget-making process...
...analyzed proposals and policies on the requests of [congressional] committees, but there were always people who didn't like the answer," Rivlin says. "If we were getting flack from both ends of the spectrum we were doing what we were supposed to be doing...