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Obama Budget Adds 1,000 Airport Body Screeners

(Feb 1) – The Christmas Day bombing attempt prompted a last-minute budget tweak that includes money to buy more full-body airport screening systems, according to the White House budget chief. "The Department of Homeland Security had a healthy budget but we did make some additional adjustments after that event," said...

Pundit's Take on Health Care a Must-Read in White House

WASHINGTON (Nov. 25) -- Think you have no life? Consider what serious Washington policy types will be reading this Thanksgiving weekend. No, not Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol." As the Senate gears up for next week's debate on health care reform, West Wingers, Hill staff and policy analysts of all stripes will be...

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05/22/12 US Should Stimulate Now, Cut Deficit Later: Ex-OMB... Source: Dow Jones Business News (via NASDAQ) The U.S. needs to create more stimulus now because of the weak labor market, and reducing the federal deficit can be delayed, Peter Orszag, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget under U.S. President Barack Obama, wrote in Bloomberg News Wednesday.
05/17/12 Tim Boxer At Jewish Women's Foundation Source: The Jewish Week - New York NY Bianna Golodryga was only 18 months when she left Moldova in the Soviet Union to settle in Galveston, Texas.
05/03/12 'Taxmaggedon' Deal Unlikely Before Year End: Orszag Source: CNBC Congress is unlikely to reach a deal before the end of the year that would derail the coming "taxmaggedon," when several pivotal tax cuts expire, former White House budget director Peter Orszag said. [
05/02/12 Citigroup's Orszag: Fix the Government's Economic... Source: Real Time Economics - The Wall Street Journal Most of the villains of the global financial crisis are familiar by now.
04/29/12 Editorial: Real issue Source: The Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City UT The United States will enter the heat of the presidential campaign in September.