| Tim Penny Tim Penny is senior fellow and co-director of the Humphrey Institute Policy Forum. He served in Congress from 1982 to 1994 representing Southeastern Minnesota's First Congressional District. He served on the U.S. House agricultural and veterans affairs committees and the Select Committee on Hunger, and he chaired the foreign agriculture and hunger subcommittee. While in Congress, Tim founded and co-chaired the Democratic Budget Group and drafted deficit-cutting initiatives. He continues to work in the areas of federal budgeting, agricultural policy, trade issues, and rural development. He served as a member of Governor Jesse Ventura's transition team in 1998-99. In 2001, he was appointed to President Bush's bipartisan commission on social security. In addition, he is a board member and policy chair for the budget watchdog group the Concord Coalition, and is an advisory board member for a clean campaign project, the Minnesota Compact. Co-author of two books, Common Cents (1995) and The 15 Biggest Lies in Politics (1998), Tim is also a regular public speaker, radio commentator and editorial writer. In 2002 Tim was the Independence Party candidate for governor
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