14 Facts About Bruce Bartlett

Bruce Reeves Bartlett was born on October 11,1951 and is an American historian and author.

Bruce Bartlett originally studied American diplomatic history under Lloyd Gardner at Rutgers and Jules Davids at Georgetown.

Bruce Bartlett was closely advised by Percy Greaves, Republican counsel to the US Congressional Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack.

In 1976, Bruce Bartlett began working for US Congressman Ron Paul.

In January 1977, Bruce Bartlett went to work for US Congressman Jack Kemp as a staff economist.

Bruce Bartlett spent much of his time on tax issues, helping to draft the Kemp-Roth tax bill, which ultimately formed the basis of Ronald Reagan's 1981 tax cut.

Bruce Bartlett co-edited the book The Supply-Side Solution.

In 1978, Bruce Bartlett went to work for Perry Duryea, who was the Republican candidate for governor of New York.

In 1981, Jepsen became Vice chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and Bruce Bartlett became deputy director of the committee's staff.

Jepsen became chairman in 1983 and Bruce Bartlett became executive director of the JEC.

Bruce Bartlett left in 1985 to become a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, where he specialized in tax policy and was involved in the debate around the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

In 1987, Bruce Bartlett became a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Policy Development, then headed by Gary Bauer.

From 1993 to 2005, Bruce Bartlett was affiliated with the National Center for Policy Analysis, a free-market think tank based in Dallas, Texas.

Bruce Bartlett is a member of the American Economic Association and the Committee for Monetary Research and Education.