Ed Grossman was an attorney in the Office of the Legislative Counsel, House of Representatives, for over 42 years from 1975 to 2017, and was Deputy House Legislative Counsel from 2009 to 2016. He was a principal drafter of entitlement health care legislation on a non-partisan basis in the House of Representatives, including Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, COBRA, and national health insurance legislation. He was a leader in drafting hospital cost containment legislation during the Carter administration, the Health Security Act during the Clinton administration, the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) during the George H. Bush administration, and the House version of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) during the Obama administration. He also was the principal legislative drafter of immigration legislation from 1980 to 1996, including the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) during the Reagan administration.

He prepared Congressional compilations of the ACA and the immigration laws. He was the inaugural recipient of the “Unsung Heros Award” from the Alliance for Health Policy at the time of his retirement in 2017. See also H. Res. 489 (115th Congress). He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.S. in Urban Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Secretary of the Georgetown Chorale (a DC-based choral group) and President of the Grossman Family Charitable Funds Inc, a private, family foundation founded by his grandfather.