About Charles S. Konigsberg JD
CHARLES S. KONIGSBERG served as Assistant Director, White House Office of Management and Budget; General Counsel at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, where he had principal responsibility for managing federal budget and debt limit legislation; Minority Chief Counsel at the U.S. Senate Rules & Administration Committee where he advised the ranking member on budget, appropriations, trade, and tax legislation; Staff Attorney at the U.S. Senate Budget Committee where he had responsibility for federal fiscal law issues including the Impoundment Control Act and wrote the Senate’s first explanation of the congressional budget process; Director of Congressional Affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and AmeriCorps; and Staff Director of the only national bipartisan budget task force to agree on a unanimous long-term debt stabilization plan. Mr. Konigsberg is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, and the Ohio Bar.
Charles S. Konigsberg is the author of 4 books:
The 2026-2027 edition of Trillions: A Primer will be released this fall on Amazon.
1. Trillions: A Primer on Federal Spending, Taxes, the U.S. Debt Ceiling, and Fiscal Law - 2024-2025 edition (Matthew Bender, 2024). Click here to purchase.
2. Trillions: A Primer on the U.S. Debt Ceiling, Federal Spending, Taxes, and Fiscal Law - 2023-2024 Edition (Matthew Bender, 2023)
3. Independent Voters will Decide America’s Future in 2024 and Beyond (2024)
4. America’s Priorities: How the U.S. Government Raises and Spends $3 Trillion Per Year (2008)
Other articles and publications by Charles S. Konigsberg:
2001: A budget odyssey, published in The Hill on 07/28/2026.
Here’s how Biden can avoid default and a constitutional crisis, published in The Hill on 05/22/2023.
The Annual Sequester of Mandatory Spending through FY2029 (CRS, 2019)
FY2020 Mandatory Sequester Reduces Medicare $15.3 Billion, Other Mandatory Spending $5.39 Billion (CRS, 2019)
Another Reason to Fear the Fiscal Cliff (published in CNN Money on 08/07/2012 jointly with G. William Hoagland)
Restoring America’s Future: A Comprehensive Plan of the Domenici-Rivlin Bipartisan Debt Reduction Task Force (2010, general editor).
Senate Finance Committee Blue Book: Program Descriptions and General Budget Information (1994, 419 pp, general editor; author, budget process chapter)
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and the Congressional Budget Process (1985, Senate Budget Committee)
The Congressional Budget Process - How It Works (1985, Senate Budget Committee).
Amending the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (1984, Notre Dame Journal of Legislation)
Charles S. Konigsberg is currently President of Capitol Public Policy LLC, which provides consulting services on budget reconciliation, appropriations, government shutdowns, the debt limit, mandatory spending, tax expenditures, advocacy strategies, and budget process training. Contact us at ckonigsberg@capitolpublicpolicy.com or (301) 509-5688.
Speaking engagements and press interviews can be scheduled by calling: (301) 509-5688. Email comments, suggestions, and questions to: info@capitolpublicpolicy.com.
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