R.I.P. Howard Baker

Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker passed away today at the age of 88.  He is a reminder of a different time:

“I’m a lifelong and proud Republican,” Baker once said. “Unlike some, however, I don’t believe loyalty to party precludes common sense decision and policymaking. Some of our nation’s greatest triumphs have come when political leaders have not allowed partisan differences to deter their efforts to find solutions that are in our nation’s best interest.”

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.