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Joe Selvaggi discusses the cost and consequences of the $1.5 trillion decade-long subsidies in the farm bill with Chris Edwards, Chair of Fiscal Studies at the Cato Institute. These subsidies have the potential to negatively impact incentives for consumers, producers, and those concerned about the environment.
The Hon. Frank J. Bailey was the United States Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Massachusetts (ret.). He has also served as an appellate judge on the First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. Judge Bailey served as judicial law clerk with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, an associate at the Boston office of Sullivan & Worcester LLP, and spent 22 years as a partner at Sherin and Lodgen LLP. Judge Bailey was elected by his peers to serve as the President of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (“NCBJ”), a position that he held until October 2021. He has been active in leadership positions in the American Bar Association, including as the Judicial Member at Large on the ABA Board of Governors and as a member of the ABA Executive Committee. Judge Bailey served as the Chair of the National Conference of Federal Trial Judges, an ABA entity that includes over 400 federal judges. Beyond his judicial leadership positions, Judge Bailey has served as the Chair of the Immigrant Learning Center in Malden, Massachusetts, a board member of the Institute for Immigration Research at George Mason University, as President of the Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, and on the Massachusetts Council of the New England Legal Foundation. Judge Bailey served as adjunct faculty at the Boston University School of Law and at New England Law School. He currently teaches Advanced Business Restructuring at Suffolk University School of Law. He has been active in international judicial training and legal education, including in Argentina, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service (BSFS in economics) in 1977 and his JD from Suffolk University in 1980. Judge Bailey retired from judicial service on June 1, 2022.
Eileen McAnneny is a Senior Fellow in Economic Opportunity at Pioneer Institute. She was formerly president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, and has experience in government relations, public policy, advocacy, and management in both the public and private sectors. She was president and CEO of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs, Director of Public Policy at Fidelity Investments, and served as Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Associate General Counsel at Associated Industries of Massachusetts, where she focused on healthcare and tax policy issues. McAnneny served on the state’s 2007 Tax Commission and was formerly a staff attorney for the Joint Committee on Revenue of the Massachusetts legislature. In 2018, she served as Vice Chair of the Governor’s Commission on the Future of Transportation. She is a cofounder of the Massachusetts Employers Health Coalition, serves on the Group Insurance Commission, is on the board of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, and is secretary of the National Taxpayers Conference. McAnneny holds a bachelor’s degree in politic science, cum laude, from Tufts University and earned her juris doctorate in law from Suffolk University Law School.
