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G. William Hoagland

Staff Director of the Senate Budget Committee and Advisor to the Senate Majority Leader

For thirty years, G. William Hoagland participated on the front lines of the annual battles over the federal budget. In 1975 he became one of the first staff members of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed him as administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service, and he also served as special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. Hoagland returned to Capitol Hill in 1982, serving first as a group leader and senior analyst and then alternately as staff director and minority staff director of the Senate Budget Committee for the next twenty years. Working with the committee’s chairman, New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, he participated in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget reform legislation, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, and the 1995 Balanced Budget Agreement. In 2003, Senate majority leader Bill Frist appointed him a policy advisor on budget and financial matters, a position he held until he retired from the Senate in 2007.

Table of Contents:

Preface

1) The Congressional Budget Office

2) The Senate Budget Office

3) The Budget Process

4) The Senate Leadership

Index

Citation: Scholarly citation: "G. William Hoagland: Staff Director of the Senate Budget Committee, Advisor to the Senate Majority Leader,” Oral History Interviews, November 28, 2006, to August 30, 2007, Senate Historical Office, Washington, D.C.

Deed of Gift: I, G. William Hoagland, do hereby give to the Senate Historical Office the tape recordings and transcripts of my interviews between November 28, 2006 and August 30, 2007. I authorize the Senate Historical Office to use the tapes and transcripts in such a manner as may best serve the educational and historical objectives of their oral history program. I also approve the deposit of the transcripts at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Senate Library, and any other institution which the Senate Historical Office may deem appropriate. In making this gift, I voluntarily convey ownership of the tapes and transcripts to the public domain. G. William Hoagland, May 17, 2008. Accepted on behalf of the Senate Historical Office by: Richard A. Baker, May 30, 2008.