Hugh Nathanial Halpern

[2] A native of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Halpern received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science from American University in 1991 and 1992, respectively.

[3] Halpern was nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the United States Government Publishing Office on October 17, 2019, and the U.S. Senate confirmed him on December 4, 2019.

In 2001, he was named general Counsel by chairman Mike Oxley for the newly-established United States House Committee on Financial Services.

During his tenure, the committee provided legislation addressing terrorist financing and money laundering, improving investor confidence in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals and granting consumers important new tools to fight identity theft.

During the 1990s, Halpern served on the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where he handled a variety of legislative issues, including automobile safety, insurance, FTC consumer protection, and tobacco regulation.