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...McNamara questioned about $4 million in reductions to the Division of Lands and Minerals at the DNR, which state Budget Director Margaret Kelly said would be spent instead on forestry, parks and trails programs. Jim Schowalter, Dayton's budget...
...Fundamentally, his choice is to treat our troops as heroes or use them as leverage.This week, when the president's budget director, Jeffrey Zients, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee, Republicans will continue to press the president...
...would generate a little helpful press in his home state. Because he served in George W. Bush's administration as budget director and trade representative, his selection would also make it easier for the Obama campaign to claim that Romney is...
...and many other consequences."It would be an extraordinary embarrassment," Jim Showalter, Dayton's state budget director, said Thursday. "It is something that will impact our bond ratings. It will impact our stature. It is not something...
...time constructing." Ryan came from a similar mindset. He worked with Alice Rivlin, who had been Bill Clinton's budget director, to develop a Medicare reform plan that created private alternatives but left fee-for-service Medicare as the...
...The president made a very, very serious effort to reach agreement on a broad range of issues," White House budget director Jack Lew told reporters after the Rose Garden speech. "When it became clear that there was no willingness on the...
...distinctions." Yet Gingrich has been quick to cite his credentials as a source of authority. In a letter to Reagan budget director David Stockman, he once wrote: "From my perspective as a historian, you don't deal in the objective requirements...
...genuine grown-up such as Portman - a longtime House member and President George W. Bush's trade representative and budget director - would be reassuring. The problem is that Portman appears to feel the need to shed his sensible disposition and...
...purely political if it had included a balloon drop. After Obama gave his budget speech, Jeffrey Zients, the acting budget director, appeared with colleagues at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to vouch for the plan."As a business person...
...he was sure that wouldn't happen. Before becoming chief of staff, Jack Lew was the budget director for President Obama and before that, the budget director for President Clinton.Even the Washington Post which tends to lean left thought that...