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White House tells Markey it won’t interfere with independent EPA testing
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 14 hours ago
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Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) expressed concerns last month when the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) urged the EPA to use test data compiled by private chemical companies when judging whether pesticides and other household products could...
Tags: Ed Markey, EPA, OMB, Peter Orszag, White House, public health, Washington, Endocrine disruptor, Ed Markey, Scientific Integrity in Policymaking, Politics, Peter R. Orszag, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget
Orszag sees health bill this year, may have capital-gains tax
Portland :: ME :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Posted: 11/13/2009 01:00:00 AM MST White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said he expects legislation to overhaul the U.S. health care system to be completed this year, possibly with a new tax on capital gains to help fund it. "We think we're going...
Tags: Peter Orszag, Medicare, capital gains, medicare tax, Portland, Lyndon B. Johnson, Welfare state, Surtax, Capital gains tax, Healthcare reform in the United States, Taxation in the United States, Healthcare in the United States, Social Issues, Politics, Labor
Policies sought to add jobs without piling on the deficit
White House :: TN :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility With the nation's unemployment rate at its highest point in 26 years and projected to rise, the Obama administration is intensifying its search for policies that can stoke job creation without adding significantly to the nation's crippling budget deficit....
Tags: Peter Orszag, New York University, Barack Obama, budget deficit, Treasury Department, budget director, director peter, house budget
United States's Largest Deficit Ever Amounting to $1.42 trillion!!!
Despite lots of efforts by the United States government in stabilizing the financial system and to jump-start the economy, the federal budget deficit reached $1.42 trillion as the recession caused huge amount of tax revenues to plunge. Sept. 30 was the...
Tags: United States government, financial system, economy, deficit, recession, tax revenues, budget, imbalances, Barack Obama, World War II, unemployment rate, White House, Peter Orszag, Congress
White House budget director defends stimulus plan
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility President Barack Obama's budget chief on Wednesday defended the White House's $787 billion economic stimulus package, saying it will soon "ramp up" as planned and emphasizing that judging the plan based on recent jobs figures is "misleading." "The recovery...
Tags: Barack Obama, Peter Orszag, budget director, U.S, White House, director peter, presidency barack, house budget, stimulus package
Deficits, taxes dominate healthcare debate
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility A leading House and two Senate healthcare plans took a big hit last week when Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf testified that those plans each “significantly expands the federal responsibility for healthcare costs.” That testimony...
Tags: White House, Barack Obama, budget director, Congressional Budget Office, president barack, care reforming, Peter Orszag, house budget, Doom Health Care Reforms, Kathleen Sebelius
Obama budget chief: Economy almost bottomed out
King :: NC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility The worst seems to be over, President Barack Obama 's budget director said Sunday. But he also warned against taking signs of economic recovery as a reason to celebrate or delay changes in health care policy. Peter Orszag said the nation's economy appears...
Tags: Barack Obama, Peter Orszag, president barack, White House, sun shining, budget director, budget chief, obama budget
Sanford makes another run at alternate stimulus plan
Columbia :: SC :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility The governor wants to spend $577 million in education stimulus money intended to keep schools from laying off teachers and going to four-day school weeks to pay off a near identical amount South Carolina schools and colleges owe to pay of construction...
Tags: Barack Obama, Mark Sanford, South Carolina, federal stimulus, Republican, Peter Orszag, president barack, White House
'Earmarks' bogging down Congress, Obama
Washington :: DC :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Running for president, Barack Obama famously paraphrased William Faulkner: "The past isn't dead and buried," Obama said. "It isn't even past." In the latest proof that the past can be hard to shake, the White House finds itself mired in a year-old battle...
Tags: Barack Obama, Peter Orszag, budget director, spending bills, Congress, president barack, house budget, White House, relief pitcher, U.S
Easy confirmation expected for OMB nominee Orszag
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility President-elect Barack Obama's budget spokesman said Tuesday that the nation faces "the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression" and without a tough stimulus package it could lose another 3 million to 4 million jobs this year. "The short-term...
Tags: deficit, obama, barack, Barack Obama, Peter Orszag, budget deficits, elect barack, bill, bailout funds, budget office
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