Former Staff
Richard Kogan
Areas of Expertise: Budget — Federal
Kogan rejoined the Center in January 2001 and departed in January 2009. During this time, he served as a Senior Fellow specializing in federal budget issues, including aggregate spending, revenues, surpluses and deficits, and debt. He is also an expert in the congressional and executive budget processes and budget accounting concepts.
This is was his second tour at the Center; where he was Senior Fellow in 1995 and 1996, during which time he also addressed issues of Medicaid financing.
He served for twenty-one years on the staff of the Committee on the Budget of the U.S. House of Representatives, most recently as the Director of Budget Policy.
In 1990 he designed and drafted the Budget Enforcement Act, which established caps on discretionary appropriations and the "pay-as-you-go" rule for tax and entitlement legislation.
He was graduated from Yale with a B.A. in political science, and then served for five years in the Congressional Research Service, specializing in budgetary conflict between the Executive and Legislative Branches.
