Editing Gene Sperling (section)

=== Clinton administration ===
Sperling served as deputy director (from 1993 to 1996) and then director (from 1996 to 2001) of the National Economic Council during the Clinton administration. As deputy director from 1993 to 1996, Sperling helped design and pass several of President Clinton's early initiatives, including [[Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993|1993 Deficit Reduction Act]],<ref name="clinton4.nara"/> the major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit,<ref name="huffpo.sperling.leaves">{{Cite news |title=Gene Sperling, Obama Economic Aide, Leaves White House |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gene-sperling_n_4887901 |first1=Steve |last1=Holland |first2=Mark |last2=Felsenthal |website=HuffPost |agency=Reuters |date=March 3, 2014 |access-date=July 11, 2012}}</ref> and the Direct Student Loan Act.<ref name="worldbank.sperling">World Bank, [http://live.worldbank.org/experts/gene-b-sperling Profile of Gene Sperling]</ref>

As director from 1996 to 2001, Sperling was a principal negotiator of the [[Balanced Budget Act of 1997|1997 bipartisan Balanced Budget Act]], which included the creation of the Children's Health Insurance Program.  He reportedly held up the final negotiation to ensure that the design of the child tax credit would lead to bigger payments for lower-income families on the Earned Income Tax Credit.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Calmes|first=Jackie|date=January 21, 2011|title=In Sperling, a Political Strategist Known for Getting It Done (Published 2011)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/business/economy/21sperling.html|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Matt Miller on Assistant to the President and NEC Director Gene Sperling|url=https://www.bradford-delong.com/2011/01/matt-miller-on-assistant-to-the-president-and-nec-director-gene-sperling.html|website=Grasping Reality by Brad DeLong}}</ref> He also played a leading role in the design and passage of other Clinton administration economic initiatives, including the Hope Scholarship Tax Credit, the New Markets Tax Credit, the Children's Health Insurance Program, the Gear-UP Early College Mentoring program, expanded debt relief to poor nations, and stronger international protections against abusive child labor.<ref name="clinton4.nara" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Remarks by Mr. Juan Somavia, Director-General, International Labour Organization: Advancing the Global campaign against child labour |url=https://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/dgo/speeches/somavia/2000/washing.htm |website=International Labour Organization |date=May 17, 2000 |access-date=July 11, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=May 17, 2000|title=Advancing the Global Campaign Against Child Labor: Progress Made and Future Actions|url=https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=globaldocs}}</ref> He was the architect of the Save Social Security First budget strategy, and co-negotiated the final week of the China WTO agreement in Beijing in 1999 with United States Trade Representative [[Charlene Barshefsky]]. Sperling worked with then-Treasury Secretary [[Lawrence Summers]] to negotiate protections for the Community Reinvestment Act in the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, also known as the [[Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act]]. These protections helped secure passage of the bill.<ref>{{Cite news|first=Michael|last=Schroeder|title=Glass-Steagall Accord Reached After Last-Minute Deal Making|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB940579557354158168|access-date=January 3, 2023|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=October 25, 1999|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Sperling represented the U.S. government and gave a keynote address at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in 2000, where the world committed to the second millennium development goal of universal primary education.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=July 13, 2008|title=Gene B. Sperling|url=https://www.cfr.org/content/bios/Sperling_bio_Sep08.pdf|website=Council on Foreign Relations}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=World Education Forum, Dakar, Senegal, 26-28 April 2000: final report|url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000121117|website=unesdoc.unesco.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Remarks of the Honorable Gene B. Sperling|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|url=https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/WH/EOP/nec/html/KvaalrDakarSpeech.html}}</ref>