Rumors Of Appointments
obsidianwings.blogs.com 11/19/2008 — by hilzoy
Today's rumors seem less speculative than most, so I'm going to break with normal practice and report them. First, the National Journal reports that Obama will make Peter Orszag to head up the Office of Management and Budget. Orszag is ...
Diversity: Obama Taps First-Ever Blogger to Be in Cabinet
blogs.abcnews.com 11/20/2008 — Peter Orszag, the man who President-elect Obama has tapped to be his director of the Office of Management and Budget, (as first reported by National Journal and confirmed by ABC News) is currently director of the Congressional Budget Office, where...
Bruce Bartlett: The Contrast Between Bush-Cheney and Obama-Biden
delong.typepad.com 11/24/2008 — Bruce writes:
The Arena : So far, I am very impressed. Larry Summers at the NEC is brilliant. Tim Geithner at Treasury inspires confidence. Peter Orszag at OMB tells me that we will get honest numbers on which to base policy for a change. And ...
Beware of Transition Leaks
politicalwire.com 11/25/2008 — Felix Salmon notes that if you read Saturday's Wall Street Journal , you would have expected the following individuals to be named today as key members of President-elect Obama's economic team: Peter Orszag as director of OMB Jacob Lew as chair of ...
Austerity, spending, and no "friendship"
politico.com 11/25/2008 — Obama announced his budget director, Peter Orszag, and deputy, Rob Nabors, at a press conference focused on austerity.
"If we are going to make the investments we need, we are going to have to shed the spending that we don’t need," he said.
He didn't detail cuts, though he ...
Obama's budget team
washingtonmonthly.com 11/25/2008 — OBAMA'S BUDGET TEAM.... Yesterday, the president-elect introduced his economic team. This afternoon, Barack Obama returned to the podium to announce his budget team: Peter Orszag as the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Robert Nabors as the...
Orszag Hangs Up His Blog —
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By Garance Franke-Ruta Peter Orszag has been hailed as the first blogger to join the White House at Cabinet rank, as well as for his fiscal acumen. Having been named by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Office of Management and Budget, he has now hung up his blogging hat over at the ...
Important Questions —
Matthew Yglesias
Now that CBO Director Peter Orszag’s designation as the new administration’s OMB Director is official, we can get down to the really important questions. For example: Wither the CBO Director’s blog? Acting Director Bob Sunshine has a post up saying goodbye to Orszag, but no ...
Obama Unveils Orszag for OMB, Emphasizes Budget Cuts —
Political Punch
In his second of three economic news conferences in three straight days, President-elect Barack Obama Tuesday introduced Peter Orszag as his budget director, promising to eliminate wasteful Washington spending at the same time as he seeks a massive stimulus package...
Orszag signs off —
Ben Smith's Blog
Incoming OMB director Peter Orszag is, among other things, a blogger, and he posted a farewell item on the Congressional Budget Office's blog today.
A glimpse of his style:
I have absolutely loved my time at CBO. CBO is unique because it combines rigor, relevance, and range. Rigor reflects ...
Health Care —
Shadow of the Hegemon
Ezra makes a good point on Obama's appointments: that a lot of them seem tailored to the idea that health care needs to be fixed. Latest evidence? Peter Orszag at OMB: Orszag will be coming from the Congressional Budget Office, OMB's legislative cousin. There, he's shown an almost ...
Peter Orszag Says Goodbye —
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
The U.S. is gaining an OMB director, but losing an economics blogger.
On the Congressional Budget Office's Director's Blog, Peter Orszag announced that he has entered his final blog entry. "Today President-elect Obama announced his intention to nominate me as director of the Office of ...
Peter Orszag Says Goodbye —
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
The U.S. is gaining an OMB director, but losing an economics blogger.
On the Congressional Budget Office's Director's Blog, Peter Orszag announced that he has entered his final blog entry. "Today President-elect Obama announced his intention to nominate me as director of the Office of ...
Obama Outlines Budget Plan, Names Orszag —
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
President-elect Barack Obama named Peter Orszag as his budget director and said his job will be to conduct a thorough review of federal spending programs, "eliminating those programs we don't need and insisting that those we do need operate in a cost-effective way," the Wall Street Journal ...
Obama Appoints Orszag OMB Director —
News
President-elect Barack Obama announced Tuesday the appointment of Congressional Budget Office director Peter Orszag as head of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Orszag, who served as an economic policy assistant in the Clinton Administration, is widely known for his ...
Beware of Transition Leaks —
The Hollywood Liberal
Beware of Transition Leaks Felix Salmon notes that if you read Saturday's Wall Street Journal, you would have expected the following individuals to be named today as key members of President-elect Obama's economic team: Peter Orszag as director ...
Peter Orszag For OMB (And The Health Care Implications) —
Daily Kos
Ezra has a clearly-written piece outlining the idea that the presumed new OMB head, Peter Orszag will be nearly as important on the health care reform beat as Tom Daschle's appointment to HHS. If you're interested in health care reform, the appointment of Peter Orszag to be director of the ...
Team of Bloggers —
Michael Calderone's Blog
Jake Tapper has discovered another first for the Obama administration: a blogger in the cabinet. Peter Orszag, who'll become director of the Office of Budget and Management, has kept a blog going since December 2007.
This follows up on The Observer dubbing the Obama Whitehouse the ...
Orszag Appointment Greases Skids for Kennedy Care? —
Weekly Standard Blog
National Journal reports that Barack Obama has selected CBO Director Peter Orszag to head up the Office of Management and Budget. Orszag is widely respected on both sides of the aisle for his professionalism and his command of budgetary detail. The Orszag appointment also suggests that one of ...
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