Director of Budget and Entitlement Policy at the Institute for Policy Innovation and general counsel for the American Civil Rights Union; staffer in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan and as Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Justice Department under President George H. W. Bush
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