Comprehensive Housing Strategy Task Force
Alice M. Rivlin Confirmation Resolution of 2004
PR 15-773

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March 12, 2004

The Honorable Linda W. Cropp 
Chairman
Council of the District of Columbia
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., Suite 504 
Washington. D.C. 20004

Dear Chairman Cropp:

In accordance with section 2 of the Comprehensive Housing Strategy Temporary Act of 2003, effective December 9, 2003 (D.C. Law 15-52), which established the Comprehensive Housing Strategy Task Force, I am pleased to nominate the following persons for appointment:

as members of the Task Force, representing banking or financial service institutions, for terms to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in;

as members of the Task Force, representing the for-profit housing production community, for terms to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in;

as members of the Task Force, representing the non-profit housing production community, for terms to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in;

as a member of the Task Force, with expertise in housing policy from the academic or nonprofit community, for a term to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in;

as a member of the Task Force, representing the philanthropic community, for a term to end l - year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in;

as a member of the Task Force, representing the employer-assisted housing provider, for a term to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in;

as members of the Task Force, representing the multifamily property owner community, for terms to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in;

as a member of the Task Force, representing the residential real estate profession, for a term to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in;

as a member of the Task Force, representing an organization that advocates for the production, preservation, and rehabilitation of affordable housing for lower-income households, for a term to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in;

as a member of the Task Force, representing low-income tenants, for a term to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in;

as citizen representative members on the Task Force, for terms to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in;

as a member of the Task Force, representing an organization that provides supportive housing services including housing counseling, financial management, in-kind assistance, or legal representation, for a term to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn in; and

as members of the Task Force, representing government agencies, including independent housing agencies, for terms to end 1-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in.

Enclosed you will find biographical information detailing the experience of the above-mentioned nominees, together with proposed resolutions to assist the Council during the confirmation process.

I would appreciate the Council's earliest consideration of these nominations for confirmation. Please do not hesitate to contact me should the Council require additional information.

Sincerely,
Anthony A. Williams 
Mayor

Enclosures 

AAW/edl

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Chairman Linda W. Cropp, at the request of the Mayor

A PROPOSED RESOLUTION IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

To confirm the appointment of Ms. Alice M. Rivlin to the Comprehensive Housing Strategy Task Force.

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the "Comprehensive Housing Strategy Task Force Alice M. Rivlin Confirmation Resolution of 2004".

Sec. 2. The Council of the District of Columbia confirms the appointment of:

Ms. Alice M. Rivlin
2838 Chesterfield Place, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
(Ward 3)

as a citizen representative member of the Comprehensive Housing Strategy Task Force, established by section 2 of the Comprehensive Housing Strategy Temporary Act of 2003, effective December 9, 2003 (D.C. Law 15-52), for a term to end I-year from the date a majority of the first members are sworn-in.

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution, upon its adoption, each to the nominee and to the Office of the Mayor. 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.

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THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
CENTER ON URBAN AND METROPOLITAN POLICY
1755 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036-2185
Tel: 202-797-6000 Fn. 2132-797-6004
www.brookings.edu

ALICE M. RIVLIN

Alice M. Rivlin is a Visiting Professor at the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. She is the Director of the Greater Washington Research Program 'at Brookings. Before returning to Brookings, Ms. Rivlin served as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board from 1996 to 1999. She was Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 1994 to 1996, and Deputy Director (1993-94). She served as Chair of the District of Columbia Financial Manager lent Assistance Authority (1998-2001).

Ms. Rivlin was the founding Director of the Congressional Budget Office (1975-19$3). She was director of the Economic Studies Program at Brookings (19831987). She also served at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (1968-69).

She is a frequent contributor to newspapers, television, and radio, and has written numerous books. Her books include Systematic Thinking for Social Action (1971), Reviving the American Dream (1992), and Beyond the Dot.coms (with Robert Litan, 2001. She is co-editor (with Isabel Sawhill) of Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget (2004) and (with Litan) of The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution (2001).

Ms. Rivlin was born in 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, She received a B.A. in economics from Bryn Mawr College in 1952; and in 1958 a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in economics. She is married to economist Sidney G. Winter, who is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She has three children and four grandchildren.

January 2004

ALICE M. RIVLIN
ARivlin@brookings.edu
Tel: 202-797-6026 - Fax: 202-797-2965

ALICE MITCHELL RIVLIN
CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRENT POSITION

September 2002 - Present, Director of the Greater Washington Research Program, Brookings
July 1999 - Present, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution 
September 2003, Visiting Professor, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University

PREVIOUS POSITIONS 

September 2001- May 2003, Henry J. Cohen Professor, Robert J. Milan Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University
1/2001-8/2002, Co-Director, Brookings-Greater Washington Research Program
9/98-9/01, Chair, District of Columbia Financial Assistance and Management Authority
6/96-7/99, Vice Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
10/94 -6/96, Director, Office of Management and Budget, The White House
1/93-10/94, Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget, The White House
1/92 -1/93, Hirst Professor of Public Policy George Mason University, 
7/87 -12/92, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Spring 1988, Visiting Professor, J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
1983 - 87, Director, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
1975 - 83, Director, Congressional Budget Office
1969 - 75, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
1968 - 69, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
1966 - 68, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program Coordination U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
1958 - 66, Senior Staff Economist, Economic Studies Program The Brookings Institution
1961 - 62, Staff Member, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (On leave from The Brookings Institution)
1957 - 58, Research Fellow, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
1954-57, Teaching Fellow and Tutor in Economics, Harvard University

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Economics, Radcliffe College, 1958 
M.A., Economics, Radcliffe College, 1955 
B.A., Economics, Bryn Mawr College, 1952

AWARDS AND SELECTED HONORARY DEGREES

Barnard Medal of Distinction, Barnard College, 2002
Elliot L. Richardson Prize for Excellence in Public Service, 2002
LL. D., Harvard University, 2001
MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, 1983-87 
LL.D., University of the District of Columbia, 1999
Doctor of Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1998 
LL.D., Yale University, 1984
Doctor of Science, University of Indiana, 1976 
LL.D., University of Maryland, 1975 
LL.D., University of Michigan, 1975

AFFILIATIONS

National Academy of Public Administration
National Academy of Social Insurance
American Economic Association
BearingPoint (Director)
Council on Foreign Relations
Committee for A Responsible Federal Budget (Director) 
Congressional Budget Office (Panel of Economic Advisors) 
D.C. Appleseed Center
D.C. Chamber of Commerce (Governing Board) 
D.C. Public Charter School Association
Dunbarton Concert Board
Economic and Social Research Institute (Advisory Panel)
Ford Foundation (Community and Resource Advisory Committee) 
Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation (Board of Directors)
New School University Center for New York City Affairs (Advisory Board) 
Public Agenda (Director)
Southeastern University (Advisory Panel)
Washington Post Company (Director)

PAST AFFILIATIONS

TJ International (Director)
Union Carbide Corporation (Director) 
Unisys Corporation (Director) 
Ryder Systems (Director)
Th e Wilderness Society (Chair, Governing Council)

PERSONAL DATA

Date of Birth: March 4, 1931
Spouse: Sidney Graham Winter
Children: Catherine, Allan and Douglas Rivlin
Previous marriage: Lewis A. Rivlin, 1955-77

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget (co-authored with Isabel Sawhill), Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2004.
Beyond the Dot.Coms: The Economic Promise of the Internet (co-authored with Robert E. Litan), Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2001.
The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution (co-edited with Robert E. Litan), Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2001.
Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States, and the Federal Government, Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1992.
Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will Pay? (with Joshua Wiener), Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1988.
Economic Choices 1987 (with Henry J. Aaron, Harvey Galper, Joseph A. Pechman, George L. Perry, Charles L. Schultze). Washington, D.C.. The Brookings Institution, 1986.
The Swedish Economy (co-editor with Barry P. Bosworth). Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution., 1987.
Economic Choices 1984 (editor and contributor). Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1983.
Ethical and Legal Issues of Social Experimentation (co-editor with Michael Timpane). Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1975.
Planned Variation in Education: Should We Give Up Or Try Harder? (co-editor with Michael Timpane). Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1975. '
Setting National Priorities; The 1974 Budget (with Charles L. Schultze, Edward R. Fried, Nancy H. Teeters). Washington, D.C.^- The Brookings Institution, 1973.
New Approaches to Public, Decision-Making. Canada: Economic Council of Canada, 1972.
Setting National Priorities: The 1973 Budget (with Charles L. Schultze, Edward R. Fried, Nancy H. Teeters). Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1972.
Setting National Priorities: The 1972 Budget (with Charles L. Schultze, Edward R. Fried, Nancy H. Teeters). Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution.
Systematic Thinking for Social Action. Washington, D.C.; The Brookings Institution, 1971.
The U.S. Balance of Payments in 1968, (with Walter Salant and others). Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1963.
Measure) of State and Local Fiscal Capacity and Tax Effort (with Susan Mushkin), U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1962.
Microanalysis of Socioeconomic Systems: A Simulation Study (with Guy Orcutt and others). Harpers, 1961.
The Role of the Federal Government in Financing Higher Education. Washington, D.C.; The Brookings Institution, 1961.

SUPERVISED PREPARATION OF

Financing the Nation's Capital (The Report of the Commission on Budget and Financial Priorities of the District of Columbia). Washington, D.C., November 1990.
Numerous reports of the Congressional Budget Office, 1975-83.
Toward a Long-Range Plan for Federal Financial Support for Higher Education. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, January 1969. 
Toward A Social Report. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, January 1969.
Medical Care Price: A Report to the President. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, February 1967.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND PAPERS

"Revitalizing Washington's Neighborhoods: A Vision Takes Shape," Brookings Greater Washington Research Program Discussion Paper, April 2003
"Another State Fiscal Crisis: Is There a Better Way?" (with Carol O'Cleireacain), Brookings Welfare Reform & Beyond Policy Brief Series, No. 23 (December 2002).
"A Sound Fiscal Footing for the Nation's Capital: A Federal Responsibility," Brookings Greater Washington Research Program Discussion Paper, October 2002.
"Challenges of Modern Capitalism," Regional Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Q3 2002,
"Will the Recovered Economy Still Be a New Economy," in Donna K. Gintler and Madeline Zavodny, eds., Technology, Growth and the Labor Market, sponsored by the federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the George State University Andrew Young School of Public Studies, chap. 11, pp. 11-16 (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002).
"On Receiving the Elliott Richardson Prize for Public Service," Brookings Review, vol. 20, no. 4, Fall 2002_.
Comment on "Does Gentrification Harm the Poor?" (Jacob Vigdor), in William Gale and Janet Rothberg Pack, eds., Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, July 2002).
Comment on "U.S. Monetary Policy During the 1990s" (N. Gregory Mankiw), in Jeffrey A. Frankel and Peter R. Orzag, eds., American Economic Policy in the 1990s (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002).
Comment on "The `New Economy' : Background, Historical Perspective, Questions, and Speculations" (J. Bradford DeLong and Lawrence H. Summers), Economic Policy for the Information Economy, A Symposium Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 30-Sept. 1, 2001.
"Envisioning a Future Washington" (with Carol O'Cleireacain), Brookings Greater Washington Research Brief, June 2001.
"The Challenges of Affluence," Business Economics (Journal of the National Association for Business Economics, vol. XXXVI, no. 1, January 2001.
"The Economy and the Internet: What Lies Ahead?" (with Robert E. Litan) Brookings Policy Brief, Conference Report no. 4, Brookings Institution, December 2000.
"Seizing the Economic Opportunity: Beware Candidates Promising Everything," Brookings Review, vol, 18, no. 4, Spring 2000.
"Sustaining the Good Economic News," Brookings Review, vol. 17, no. 4, Fall 1999..
"Optimal Supervision and Regulation of Banks," in George G. Kaufman, ed., Bank Reform Five Years Later and Five Years Ahead. FDICIA. Research in Financial Services: Private and Public Policy, vol. 9. Greenwich, Conn. and London: JAI Press, 1997, pp. 133-40.
"Rationalism and Redemocratization: Time for a Truce," in Adam M. Finkel and Dominic Golding, eds., Worst Things First" The Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities,' Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1994.
"Beyond Alliances: Global Security Through Focused Partnerships" (with General David C. Jones, USAF, Ret. and General Education C. Meyer, USA, Ret. A Study funded by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation. October 1990.
"Simulating Policy Altenatives for Long-Term Care: An Example of the Orcutt Approach," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,, Vol. 14, No. 1, September 1990.
"Understanding Economic Policy: A Citizen's Handbook" (with Carol G. Cox). Washington, D.C.: League of Women Voters Education Fund, 1990.
"The Case for Common Shared Taxes," NTA Forum, Fall 1990.
"Wanted A New State-Level Tax to Prepare Us for the 21st Century,: A Commentary," Governing, April 1990.
"The Continuing Search for A Popular Tax," The American Economic Review, Vol. 79, No. 2, May 1989.
"Insuring Long-Term Care," (with Joshua M. Wiener). George L. Maddox and M. Powell Lawton, eds., Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Vol. 8, 1988.
"Economic Policy' (with Paul H. O'Neill, W. Michael Blumenthal and James D. Robinson, III), American Agenda: Report to the Forty-First_ President of the United States of America. Washington, D.C.: America Agenda, Incorporated.
"Who Should Pay for Long-Term Care for the Elderly?," The Brookings Bulletin , Vol, 6, No. 3, Summer 1988.
"Systematic Analysis of Defense Issues: The Role of the Congress," Naval War College Review, Vol. XLI, No. 4, Seq, 324, Autumn 1988.
"Economics and the Political Process," (Presidential address delivered at the ninety-ninth meeting of the American Economic Association, December 29, 1986, New Orleans, Louisiana), The American Economic Review, Vol. 77, No. 1, March 1987.
"The Tax Reform Act," The Senior Economist, Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 1987.
"Unsnarling the Process: Seven Ways to Improve Economic Policymaking," Public Welfare, Vol. 45, No. 3, Summer 1987.
"The Need for a Better Budget Process," The Brookings Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer 1986.
"Thoughts on Public Expenditures," Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. XI, No. 1, January-April 1985.
"Reform of the Budget Process," The American Economic Review, May 1984; available as The Brookings Institution General Series Reprint No. 402,
"Why and How to Cut the Deficit," The Brookings Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 4, Summer 1984.
"The Political Economy of Budget Choices; A View from Congress," The American Economic Review, May 1982.
"Income Distribution -- Can Economists Help?," The American Economic Review, May 1975; available as The Brookings Institution General Series Reprint No. 307.
"How Can Experiments Be More Useful," The American Economic Review, May 1974; available as The Brookings Institution General Series Reprint No. 290.
"Social Policy: Alternate Strategies for the Federal Government," Presented and published as Woytinsky Lecture No. 3. Michigan: The University of Michigan, 1973; available as The Brookings Institution General Series Reprint No. 288.
"Experimentation in Urban Education" (Spaulding Lecture delivered March 1971), Issues in Urban Education. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University, 1972.
"New Approaches to Public Decision-Malting," Special Study No. 18 prepared for the Economic Council of Canada, January 1972.
"Why Can't We Get Things Done," The Brookings Bulletin, Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 1972.
"Rethinking the Role of the Federal Government in Elementary and Secondary Education for the Seventies," with Robert W. Hartman, Needs of Elementary and Secondary Education for the Seventies. Washington, D.C.: U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, March 1970.
"Growth and Change in Higher Education," with June O'Neill, Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Spring 1970.
"Education, Politics, and Federal Aid," The Progressive, October 1970.
"Social Goals and Federal Support of Higher Education: The Implications of Various Strategies," with Jeffrey H, Weiss, U.S. Joint Economic Committee, Compendium of Papers on The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, 1969.
"The Planning, Programming and Budgeting System in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: Some Lessons from Experience," Subcommittee on Economy in Government of the U.S. Joint Economic Committee, 91st Congress, 1st Session, Compendium of Papers on the Analysis and Evaluation of Public Expenditures: The PPB System, Vol. 3, Pt. V, 1969; available as The Brookings Institution Reprint No. 162,
"Population Growth and the American Economy," F.X. Quinn (ed.) Population Ethics, Corpus Books, 1968.
"Privacy, Poverty, and Old Age," with John C, Beresford, Demography, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1966. Reprinted in Jeffrey K. Hadden and Marie L. Borgatta, Editors, Marriage and the Family: A Comprehensive Reader, F.E. Peacock Publishers Inc., 1969.
"Critical issues in the development of Vocational Education," Unemployment in a Prosperous Economy (William G. Bowen and Frederick C. Harbison, eds.), Princeton, 1965; available as The Brookings Institution Reprint No. 112.
"Characteristics of Other Families," with John C. Beresford, Demography, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1964.
"Research in the Economics of Higher Education: Progress and Problems," Selma J. Mushkin (ed.) Economics of Higher Education, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1962; available as The Brookings Institution Reprint No. 63.
"An Economic and Demographic Model of the Household Sector. A Progress Report" (with Guy H. Orcutt), National ureau of Economic Research, New York, Demographic and Economic Change in Developed Countries, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960.

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