Background
Reed is a native of Coeur d"Alene, Idaho, and the son of Idaho State Senator Mary Lou Reed and Scott Reed, prominent environmental attorney.
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Reed is a native of Coeur d"Alene, Idaho, and the son of Idaho State Senator Mary Lou Reed and Scott Reed, prominent environmental attorney.
He attended Princeton University, graduating in 1982, and earned a master"s degree in English Literature from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
Reed served as chief speechwriter for Tennessee Senator First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore from 1985 to 1989. He was founding editor of the DLC magazine, The New Democrat and served as policy director of the DLC from 1990 to 1991 under DLC Chairman and Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton. In 1992, he was deputy campaign manager for policy of the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign.
During the Clinton presidency, Reed served as chief domestic policy advisor and director of the Domestic Policy Council, and helped to write the 1996 welfare reform law known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Acting.
He is credited with coining the welfare reform catchphrase, "end welfare as we know lieutenant"
Reed is the author of the taunt, "change you can Xerox," from the February 21, 2008 presidential primary debate in Austin, Texas. In the spring of 2010, Reed took a leave of absence from the DLC to become Executive Director of President National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Simpson-Bowles Commission).
In November 2013 it was announced that he would step down as the Vice President"s Chief of Staff to become president of the Broad Foundation.
Prior to assuming that role in December of 2013, he served as Chief of Staff to United States. Vice President Joe Biden and is a former Chief Executive Officer of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). On January 14, 2011 he was named Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden, succeeding Ron Klain.
