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Opinion: Living Within Our Means, Investing in the Future

Today, President Barack Obama sent to Congress his budget for the 2012 fiscal year. This document is built around the simple idea that we have to live within our means so we can invest in the future. Only by making tough choices to both cut spending and deficits and invest in what we need to win the future can we...

Sharp Fiscal Split Looms Over Obama and GOP

(Nov. 30) -- Today's delayed, diminished and sure to be disputed White House meeting between President Barack Obama and ascendant congressional Republicans is set to include discussion of a broad array of national security and domestic policy issues. But in a week when painful deficit-cutting plans are coming to the fore...

Opinion: Liars, Damned Liars and Budget Directors

(Sept. 8) -- What is it about White House budget directors? Maybe it's the inevitable clash between the numbers they know are right and the politics they know are wrong. Now comes former Obama administration budget director Peter Orszag to whip the clothes off the budget emperor. In a New York Times op-ed this week,...

Obama's Budget Chief Pick Has Work Cut Out for Him

ANALYSIS (July 13) -- Jacob Lew isn't just being tasked with balancing a budget some $1 trillion in the red. President Barack Obama's pick to be the new federal budget chief will also have to balance political demands to fund economic stimulus and job creation against political worries about runaway deficits. Obama said...

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05/29/12 Conservative Jews Meet Jack Lew and Obama Source: The Jewish Daily Forward - New York NY A group of leaders from the Conservative movement held an informal meeting Tuesday with President Obama.
05/04/12 Jack Lew Speaks to the American Jewish Committee... Source: The White House Last night, White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew spoke at the American Jewish Committee Global Forum.