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Senate Confirms Obama's Pick for Budget Director

WASHINGTON (Nov. 18) -- President Barack Obama's choice for budget director won Senate confirmation Thursday after a senator ended her protest over the administration's moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The Senate confirmed by voice vote Jacob Lew as director of the Office of Management...

Opinion: White House Exits Normal? Not By a Long Shot

(Oct. 13) -- It has become a mantra in the news media these days to include in every story about the departure of another high-level Obama White House official the cautionary declaration that "it is normal for appointees to leave after a president's first two years." The unspoken message here is that this is not a case of...

Docs on the Clock: Would Weekend Shifts Boost Health Care?

(Oct. 4) -- If Americans are serious about improving health care, they may need to ask for some serious lifestyle changes from their medical providers: Docs might need to sacrifice the standard Saturday-Sunday weekend to boost patient care and save money. It's a controversial idea, but one that Peter Orszag, a fellow at...

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,...

White House Budget Chief Peter Orszag Resigning

WASHINGTON (June 22) -- White House Budget Director Peter Orszag says he's stepping down next month, positioning him to be the first high-profile member of President Barack Obama's team to depart the administration. Orszag confirmed his planned resignation in a brief interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. He said...

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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.