Alice Rivlin, the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office, has died. She was 88 years old.
Rivlin was appointed to CBO in 1975 and holds the record for the longest tenure in that post, until 1983. She was most recently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she worked on economic studies and health policy.
Rivlin also served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton administration and as vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board.
In a statement, CBO Director Keith Hall said Rivlin “forged a commitment to providing objective, nonpartisan information to help the Congress make effective budget and economic policy.”
“Her commitment to high-quality analysis, well thought out and clearly presented, continues to be a guiding principle of CBO,” Hall said.
Article originally published on POLITICO Magazine