January 17, 2011 1:25PM 

# Bruce Reed at Cato 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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Bruce Reed, who has served as chief domestic policy adviser to President Clinton, CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council, and executive director of President Obama’s deficit-cutting commission, has been named chief of staff to Vice President Biden.

In 2004 Bruce Reed joined Ron Suskind and David Frum at a Cato Policy Forum on “wonks vs. hacks.” [Video here](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=891).

In 2006 he joined Markos Moulitsas, Harold Meyerson, and Nick Gillespie in an [online debate at Cato Unbound](http://www.cato-unbound.org/archives/october-2006/) titled “Should Libertarians Vote Democrat?”

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