[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 98 (Monday, June 20, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S4356]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO DAVID WEINER

  Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, today, along with my colleague, the ranking 
member of the Budget Committee, Senator Sanders, I wish to honor and 
recognize the outstanding service of David Weiner on his retirement 
after 32 years of public service, including 25 years at the 
Congressional Budget Office. David's expertise as a forecaster, 
modeler, and policy analyst have made him an invaluable contributor to 
the development of much of the key tax legislation of the past quarter 
century, starting with the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Since 2013, David 
has led CBO's tax analysis division, superbly overseeing its forecasts 
of tax revenues, cost estimates of legislative proposals, reports on 
important current issues in tax policy, and development of the modeling 
infrastructure needed to conduct those tasks.
  David's first job in Washington was as an evaluator at the U.S. 
General Accounting Office. He then moved to the Office of Tax Analysis 
in the Department of Treasury, where he constructed models to estimate 
revenue effects and produce economic analyses of numerous tax 
proposals, including those related to capital gains, corporate tax 
integration, and taxpayer compliance. At Treasury and later at CBO, 
David was also responsible for the forecasts of individual income tax 
receipts. CBO was very fortunate in 1991 when David brought his skills 
to the agency, where he built and maintained microsimulation models 
used for forecasting receipts and analyzing changes in the distribution 
of tax burdens. He also wrote influential studies on critical topics in 
tax policy, including marriage penalties and bonuses in the tax system 
and effective Federal tax rates. In the tax analysis division, David 
served as the unit chief for modeling from 2002 to 2009, Deputy 
Assistant Director from 2009 to 2013, and Assistant Director for the 
rest of his tenure at CBO.
  As head of the tax analysis division, David has led his staff in 
providing high-quality and timely analysis of tax policy and budget 
issues. His expansive knowledge of tax policy and how it interacts with 
other facets of public policy has been a tremendous resource to the 
Congress. Colleagues who have worked with David appreciate his uncanny 
ability to find solutions to challenges and his commitment to producing 
top-caliber analyses but they will especially miss his wit, his 
generosity with his time and knowledge, and his compassion.
  I know my colleagues join me in extending our thanks and appreciation 
to David for his service to our Nation. We wish him well in his 
retirement from CBO and hope he will continue in future years to lend 
his expertise to the analysis of important tax policy issues.
  I would like to now yield to my colleague Senator Sanders for his 
remarks.
  Mr. SANDERS. I thank Mr. Enzi and join him in commending Mr. Weiner 
for his many years of dedicated and outstanding service to CBO, the 
Congress, and the American people. Through his diligence and hard work, 
he has more than earned additional time for biking, training for the 
annual Washington Post hunt, and most importantly, for his family--his 
wife, Joan, and his sons, Kevin, Daniel, and Eric.
  We hope our colleagues will join us in thanking Mr. Weiner for his 
service.

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