Allen Schick came to the Maryland School of Public Policy from the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, where he served as a senior specialist. His professional history includes research positions at the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution and teaching positions at Tufts University and Syracuse University. His extensive list of publications includes "Congress and Money: Spending, Taxing, and Budgeting," "Making Economic Policy in Congress," "The Capacity to Budget," "The Budget Puzzle," and "The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process." He is founding editor of the professional journal, "Public Budgeting and Finance." Among his awards are the Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Society for Public Administration Waldo Prize. From the Series:Policy Watch with Doug Besharov