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Bruce Reed is president of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the national organization that launched the New Democratic movement.
Before returning to the DLC in January 2001, Mr. Reed served for eight years in the Clinton-Gore White House. As President Clinton's chief domestic policy advisor and director of the Domestic Policy Council, he developed and oversaw the administration's agenda on welfare reform, crime, education, tobacco, and other domestic issues. He helped write the landmark 1996 welfare reform law, create the 100,000 police program, and enact the President's education agenda.
In 1992, Mr. Reed served as deputy campaign manager for policy of the Clinton-Gore campaign, supervising development of the domestic, economic, and foreign policy agenda. He served as policy director of the DLC from 1990 to 1991, when Clinton was DLC chairman. He also was founding editor of the DLC magazine, The New Democrat. From 1985 to 1989, he served as chief speechwriter for Senator Al Gore.
Mr. Reed's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Economist, and The Washington Monthly.
Mr. Reed, 44, is a native of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and a graduate of Princeton and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Paul Weinstein Jr. is chief operating officer of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), where he is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of both organizations. Furthermore, as a PPI senior fellow, Mr. Weinstein writes and speaks on an array of issues including pension and tax reform, budget and transportation policy, corporate responsibility, housing policy, and government reform.
In addition to his responsibilities with DLC/PPI, Mr. Weinstein also serves on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University Washington Center for Advanced Academic Programs., Mr. Weinstein has also lectured at Columbia University and Georgetown University. Weinstein is co-author of, The Art of Policymaking, a university-level textbook on policymaking in the executive branch of government. His writing also has appeared in The Boston Globe, Investors Business Daily, The Washington Monthly, The Hill, and Politico among others.
Mr. Weinstein has developed policy in a wide range of areas and at the highest levels of government. He joined President Clinton at the start of his 1992 campaign as Senior Policy Advisor, and served in his administration as Special Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff of the Domestic Policy Council. In these roles, he advised the president in a number of areas including economic development, tax policy, government and political reform, environmental issues, and housing. Mr. Weinstein helped write a number of important policy initiatives, including the administration's brownfields initiative and the law that established the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. In 1999, Weinstein joined the staff of Vice President Gore as his Senior Advisor for Policy Planning and Coordination. In this capacity, he was responsible for developing and managing much of Vice President Gore's domestic and economic agenda.
Before joining the Clinton administration, Weinstein served as a legislative aide to former Representative C. Thomas McMillen (D-MD) and then-Senator Albert Gore Jr. (D-TN). Weinstein was born and raised in New York City and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University. He received his Master's from Columbia University.