One of the Congressional Budget Office’s longest-serving and most influential staffers, whose career spanned the leadership of all 10 of the agency’s directors, retired last week after 48 years on the job.
Robert A. Sunshine joined the CBO in 1976, a year after its formation as part of the 1974 budget law that also created the House and Senate Budget committees and established the modern budget process. Sunshine, who goes by “Bob,” most recently served as senior adviser to the director, and before that as deputy director and acting director of the agency, among other roles.
As he steps down, fittingly at the end of the fiscal year, those who worked closely with Sunshine are lauding his professional contributions and personal qualities serving an institution that plays one of the most critical roles on Capitol Hill through its analysis of legislative impacts.
