| Matt
McHugh represented the 27th and 28th Congressional Districts of New York
in the U.S. Congress from 1975-1992. During his long tenure in the Congress,
he came to be regarded as one of those "best and brightest" who
came of age in the idealistic time of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther
King, Jr. A lawyer by training and known by his colleagues as the "conscience
of the House," one of his last Congressional duties was to preside
over a special bipartisan panel set up to investigate the checkwriting scandal
that gripped the House in the early 90's. A spokesman for former President
Bush remarked that "President Bush remembers Congressman McHugh as
a good man. He remembers him as a person who was able to work in a bipartisan
spirit when the good of the country was at stake."
Key Congressional Committee assignments included Appropriations [1978-92]
(Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs;
Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture and Related Agencies), Intelligence
[1985-90] (Chairman, Subcommittee on Legislation), Standards of Official
Conduct [1983-92] (Acting Chairman), Children, Youth and Families [1983-92],
Veterans Affairs [1975-77], Agriculture [1973-78], and Interior [1977-78].
He chaired the Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus [1984-87] and the
Democratic Study Group [1982-84]. Matt McHugh is now 57. He started his
post-House career as vice president and counsel at Cornell University. He
worked there briefly before moving on to the World Bank, were he is Counselor
to the Bank's President. He has been spending much of the past three years
working on plans to better communicate the Bank's mission and importance
to citizens, business people, and leaders in the institution's 180 member
nations. He has been a member of many national and international boards
and commissions, among them the National Endowment for Democracy, Bread
for the World, the New York State Regents Commission on Higher Education,
and the American Bar Association's Central and East European Law Commission.
He has also published opinion columns in the New York Times, the Washington
Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. |