SCHILIRO PHIL INSTITUTIONAL ET SECTORAL MIGRANTS. http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/chrntran08/whstaffbios.html Phil Schiliro -- Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs (11/15) Philip M. Schiliro is currently the Director of Congressional Relations for the transition team of President-Elect Barack Obama. Schiliro was a senior advisor to Senator Obama's presidential campaign. He has worked in the United States Congress for more than 25 years. Schiliro served as the Chief of Staff to Representative Henry Waxman and the House Oversight Committee in the House, and the Policy Director for Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle and Staff Director of the Senate Democratic Leadership Committees in the Senate. White House Advisor Phil Schiliro ’78 Keynoter at Mid-Year Commencement http://news.hofstra.edu/2013/12/12/hofstra-university-2013-midyear-commencement-activities-and-honoree-sun- dec-22-1130-a-m/5 White House advisor Phil Schiliro ’78 urged graduates who earned their diplomas on Sunday to take a moment to thank the people who have helped them along the way because “if you are successful, and all of you are — you’re here today — somebody along the line gave you some help.” “There may be a couple of you who have done it completely on your own. I can’t say that. I didn’t,” Schiliro told the 550 undergraduate, graduate and law students who participated in Hofstra’s mid-year commencement ceremony at the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex. He drove home his point by recognizing several Hofstra professors who influenced and inspired him, including Dean Bernard Firestone, Professor Michael D’Innocenzo and Professor Emeritus Herb Rosenbaum. Schiliro, who has spent more than 30 years in Washington working on a wide range of issues, served as President Obama’s Director of Legislative Affairs from 2009-2010 and was a Special Advisor to the President in 2011. Earlier this month, he returned to the White House at the President’s request to assist with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. As President Obama’s liaison to Congress, Schiliro played a critical role in the passage of many laws, including the Affordable Care Act, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the economic stimulus package, Wall Street and credit card reforms, the Family Smoking and Prevention Tobacco Control Act, the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act and numerous others. Schiliro majored in political science at Hofstra University, and concentrated on environmental law as a student at Lewis and Clark Law School. He also served as editor-in-chief of the Law Review. After law school, Schiliro spent more than 25 years as Congressman Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) Chief of Staff and the Staff Director for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In 2004 he spent a year in the U.S. Senate as the Staff Director for the Senate Leadership Committees and the Policy Director for the Democratic Leader, Senator Tom Daschle. https://law.lclark.edu/live/news/15693-change-from-the-inside Lewis & Clark Law School Change from the inside March 12, 2012 Phil Schiliro ’81, when he was special advisor to President Barack Obama By Melody Finnemore Phil Schiliro’s passion for protecting the environment dates back to when he was a teenager growing up in Long Island, New York. As a high school senior in 1974, he discovered that a local business was polluting a reservoir near his neighborhood. The young Schiliro united his environmental studies classmates, community residents, and local media in a grassroots movement that succeeded in stopping the contamination. Continued interest in environmental law drew the Hofstra University graduate to Lewis & Clark Law School. Schiliro says the time he spent in the internationally renowned program was invaluable, both personally and professionally. “It was terrific. The professors were first rate and I made lifelong friends with other students,” he says. “And Law Review”—he was editor—“was an extraordinary experience.” Schiliro moved to Washington, D.C., in 1981. He worked on the Clean Air Act for U.S. Representative Tim Wirth during the 1982 reauthorization fight. From 1983 to 2004, Schiliro served as legislative director and then chief of staff for U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, who at the time chaired the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. The subcommittee’s jurisdiction included the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, pesticide laws, and global warming legislation. From 1997 to 2004, Schiliro also was the Democratic chief of staff for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Schiliro joined Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 as staff director of the Senate Democratic Leadership Committees and served as the minority leader’s policy director. The following year, he returned to Waxman’s office as chief of staff and to his position as chief of staff for the House Oversight Committee. In 2008, Schiliro joined Barack Obama’s presidential campaign as director of the Washington, D.C., office. Following the election, he served as director of the Congressional Liaison Office for President Obama’s transition team before being named as an assistant to the president and director of legislative affairs for the White House. In 2011, Schiliro moved from the Office of Legislative Affairs to a new position as a special advisor to the president, where he served through Fall of 2011. Schiliro is markedly understated about the impact of his work on Capitol Hill. Plenty of others have been vocal about it, though. A recent profile by The Washington Post noted that Schiliro was director of legislative affairs during the time Congress passed the $787 billion economic stimulus package, as well as health care and financial regulatory reforms. The Post profile also lauded Schiliro for his role in an investigation of Haliburton that determined the company had overcharged taxpayers for its work as a Department of Defense subcontractor. Among the 2,000 reports filed during Schiliro’s work with the House Oversight Committee, another investigation dug into Blackwater USA’s involvement in the fatal shootings of Iraqi civilians. Waxman has credited Schiliro with helping pass the 1990 Clean Air Act as well as increasing public awareness of toxic air pollutants and other contaminants. Schiliro worked toward the 1986 and 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act reauthorizations, overhauling pesticides law in the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, creating the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project, and investigating the tobacco industry (including the landmark 1994 hearing with the industry’s CEOs). Along with environmental protections, the use of steroids in Major League Baseball was an issue of personal concern to Schiliro. A longtime fan of the game, Schiliro played a key role in the highly visible congressional hearings that brought the problem—especially its impact on teenage athletes—to light. Waxman noted that Schiliro’s commitment to the issue helped focus attention on the use of steroids in all sports. When President Obama selected Schiliro as his legislative affairs director, Waxman noted that the president was fortunate to have such a valuable member on his team. “[Schiliro] understands the Congress and the legislative process probably better than anyone else around,” Waxman told the Post. “He’s calm and rational and has a very good perspective on how to get things done.” Obama, quoted by Politico in 2009 regarding Schiliro’s efforts to get the stimulus package approved, echoed Waxman’s admiration. “Phil had as much to do as anyone in getting this highly significant piece of legislation through Congress and I will rely on him heavily in the months to come,” the president said. “[He’s] as valuable a member of our team as any. He’s extremely knowledgeable about the legislative process, as calm and steady under pressure as anyone I’ve ever seen.” Schiliro and his wife, Jody, a documentary filmmaker, have a daughter. He prefers to remain a private figure on a very public stage. While his high-profile work comes with its share of challenges, he says that after three decades of working in politics he still appreciates the chance to help make a difference. “The opportunity to be part of a team working on issues of national importance is very rewarding. From my years at Lewis & Clark to today, I’ve seen time and again how the government can be a powerful force of good in our country.” ARTICLE Fondemental http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-schiliro/the-straightforward-expla_b_6736746.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-schiliro/the-straightforward-expla_b_6736746.html The Straightforward Explanation for "Established by the State" in the Affordable Care Act Phil Schiliro (Auteur), Fmr. Director of Legislative Affairs in the White House In the coming weeks much will be written about King v. Burwell, the latest attack on the Affordable Care Act before the Supreme Court. The law's opponents argue the statute authorizes tax credits only in the states that operate their own health insurance marketplaces (also known as exchanges). If this were correct -- and subsidies weren't available to Americans living in states where the federal government operates the exchanges -- as many as 11 million Americans could lose health coverage and insurance markets in 34 states could be upended. The lynchpin of their argument is a mistaken interpretation of a single phrase -- "an Exchange established by the State" -- in the definition of "Premium Assistance Amount" in one sentence of a long and complicated law. They say these few words can refer only to the exchanges run by the states, not the 34 exchanges operated by the federal government for states that elected not to run their own. But the explanation for these words is actually not complicated.