Diana furchtgott roth biography of christopher
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, who served in the Reagan and both Bush administrations, was nominated September 28, 2017, to lead the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) in the Department of Transportation. Created in 2005, RITA was renamed the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology in 2014.
Furchtgott-Roth was born April 4, 1958, in England. She came to the United States with her parents, Ellen and Gabriel Roth, in 1967 when her father, an economist, went to work for the World Bank, and the family settled in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Furchtgott-Roth attended the exclusive Sidwell Friends School in Washington, graduating in 1975. She went on to Swarthmore College, earning a B.A. in economics in 1979. Furchtgott-Roth returned to England, and Oxford University’s Brasenose College, where she earned an M.Phil in economics. Furchtgott-Roth became a U.S. citizen in 1988.
In 1986, Furchtgott-Roth was hired as a junior economist in Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers. She left the following year to work as an economist for the American Petroleum Institute, the lobbying arm of the oil and gas industry. Furchtgott-Roth returned to government in 1991 as deputy executive director of the Domestic Policy Council in the George H.W. Bush White House.
When the Republicans left office in 1993, Furchtgott-Roth landed at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute as a resident fellow and assistant to the president. She stayed there throughout the Clinton administration.
When George W. Bush took office, he brought in Furchtgott-Roth as chief of staff to the Council of Economic Advisers. In 2002, Furchtgott-Roth was nominated for a seat on the board of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, but she was not confirmed into the job. The following year, she moved to the Department of Labor as its chief economist.
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Diana Furchtgott-Roth is director of Economics21 and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. She is a contributing editor of RealClearMarkets.com, and a columnist for the Washington Examiner, MarketWatch.com, and Tax Notes. From 2003 to 2005, Ms. Furchtgott-Roth was chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor. From 2001 to 2002 she served as chief of staff of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. Ms. Furchtgott-Roth served as deputy executive director of the Domestic Policy Council and associate director of the Office of Policy Planning in the White House under President George H.W. Bush from 1991 to 1993, and she was an economist on the staff of President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1986 to 1987. Ms. Furchtgott-Roth received her B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College and her M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University.
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A lonely critique from the center-right of air traffic control corporatization appeared on MarketWatch making a series of incorrect and misleading claims. I have previously discussed the factual problems with the handful of anti-union conservatives’ arguments against these reforms and encouraged them to read the House’s bill and take a closer look at federal labor law (see here, here, here, and here).
What follows is a point-by-point response on where things went wrong in a recent commentary by Manhattan Institute labor economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth. Her claims are in bold and my corrections and comments follow.
The summer travel season is in full swing — and about 16 legislative days are left until funding for the Federal Aviation Administration expires on July 15.
The House and Senate are trying to compromise on a bill to reauthorize spending for the agency. The outcome could determine whether the nation’s air-traffic-control system is a thriving, vibrant part of U.S. aviation or becomes as infamous as the post office, Amtrak and those painfully long airport security lines in terms of consumer service and as, in at least those first two, a sinkhole for taxpayer money.
Awaiting floor action is a House bill supported by the federal National Air Traffic Controllers Association union. It would spin off the air-traffic-control part of the FAA into a federally chartered nonprofit corporation. A FAA reauthorization bill recently passed by the Senate doesn’t include the spinoff provision.
Congress should go with the Senate version. Here’s why.
Furchtgott-Roth fails to note that supporters of the bill include Republican congressional leaders, the airline industry (with the exclusion of Delta Air Lines—see here for why Delta and the corporate jet lobby oppose reform for crony-capitalist reasons), travel industry, Business Roundtable, the Washington Post and Wall Street Jo