Charles S. Konigsberg is Chief Budget Counsel of The Concord Coalition. As Chief Budget Counsel, Mr. Konigsberg writes the weekly Concord Coalition Washington Budget Report which chronicles news and developments on federal budget, appropriations, and tax issues. Konigsberg launched his Washington Budget Report, upon which the new Concord Coalition publication is based, in January of 2007.

Konigsberg began his bipartisan Senate career as Staff Attorney at the Senate Budget Committee. He then moved on to the Senate Rules and Administration Committee for six years where he served as Chief Counsel on the Committee’s Minority Staff. Most recently in the Senate, Konigsberg served four years as General Counsel to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) at the Senate Finance Committee and managed the Committee’s half trillion-dollar deficit reduction legislation for Chairman Moynihan. Mr. Konigsberg also served in the administration of President Bill Clinton as an Assistant Director at the Office of Management and Budget.

Konigsberg is the author of America’s Priorities: How the U.S. Government Raises and Spends $3,000,000,000 (Trillion) Per Year (2008). The book, which has received bipartisan acclaim, provides plain English explanations of major Federal spending programs, Federal taxes, the budget process, and the swing from deficits in the 1980s to surpluses in the late 1990s, and back to rapidly rising debt in the current decade.

Mr. Konigsberg graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1980 and from the Case Western Reserve School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio in 1983, where he was Executive Editor of the Law Review.