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Sarah Bittleman, JD *invited

Policy Director and Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Ron Wyden

Sarah Bittleman is the Policy Director and Deputy Chief of Staff for Senator Ron Wyden who is the chairman of the US Senate Finance Committee. The Committee jurisdiction is over taxation and other revenue measures generally; bonded debt of the United States; customs, collection districts, and ports of entry and delivery; reciprocal trade agreements; tariff and import quotas, and related matters thereto; the transportation of dutiable goods; deposit of public moneys; general revenue sharing; health programs under the Social Security Act, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and other health and human services programs financed by a specific tax or trust fund; and national social security. She has been with the Senator on and off since the late 1990s. In the off periods she has been with the Obama administration as the EPA agriculture counselor to the Administrator, served as senior advisor to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, where she specialized in energy and EPA issues, and worked as Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs for the Department of the Interior. She has also worked as a legislative director in the US Senate as well as in the US House of Representatives, and also did a stint on the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. She holds a Master's of Public Administration from East Carolina University, a JD from Tulane University School of Law and a BA in political science from Union College in New York. She grew up on a tree farm in way upstate NY.


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