Today’s Hope and Change… White House Budget Director Peter Orszag warned about the serious and unsustainable national deficit today. The Hill reported: White House Budget Director Peter Orszag warned Tuesday that large federal deficits will eventually imperil the U.S. economy because they will lead to higher interest rates and more borrowing from overseas. Orszag, in a speech in New [...]...
Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, has gotten himself into an argument with a man who buys pixels by the barrel. Last week WaPo editor Fred Hiatt opined that the Democrat's risky health reform schemes failed...
Peter R. Orszag, President Obama's budget director, said on Tuesday that the White House economic team is considering "a range of options" so the president can keep his promise to reduce federal budget deficits.
Who has been the most frequent visitor to the Obama White House , according to the records released by the administration? The Obama administration on Friday released a partial roster of visitors in the first six months of President Obama’s term, a disclosure that shows business executives, labor leaders, lobbyists and a sprinkling of celebrities were cleared into the White House for meetings,...
The Wall Street Journal reports today on Obama's estimated $1.4 trillion deficit and how it seems to be having little impact on Congress' spending plans. As White House budget director Peter Orszag was reporting...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Over the past month, the White House and Democratic leaders have been upping their pressure on Maine senator Susan Collins to cross party lines and vote for their proposed health-care reform. According to the Washington Post , she's met with White House budget guru Peter Orszag, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and even sat down with Rahm Emanuel for an hour (a meeting during which the president...
"President Obama's overhaul hinges on six crucial individuals and their skill at negotiating behind closed doors," The Los Angeles Times reports. "The core group consists of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, legislative affairs director Phil Schiliro, communications expert Dan Pfeiffer, (Peter) Orszag, (Jim) Messina and Nancy-Ann DeParle.
"The campaigner-in-chief kicked off a political blitz on Tuesday, holding three fund-raisers in Manhattan and collecting roughly $3 million for the Democratic Party," The New York Daily News writes. "Obama gobbled up checks of $30,400 per couple, the federal maximum, for the Democratic National Committee at the Mandarin Oriental hotel -- and joked donors got off easy. 'You can't afford...
President Obama's overhaul hinges on six crucial individuals and their skill at negotiating behind closed doors. Now Rahm Emanuel, Nancy-Ann DeParle and the others will see if their efforts pay off. Peter R. Orszag, the White House official steeped in budget detail, is now so at home in the Capitol that he freely grabs Coke Zeros from the Senate Finance Committee's private stash when he talks healthcare...
By GottaLaff The coolest, cutest geek ever! I love this guy: OMB Director Peter Orszag explains a new pedometer challenge for federal employees. The voluntary challenge hopes to promote healthy competition between government employees based on existing or developing walking habits. Mr. Orszag kicks off the competition with a stroll to the newly opened farmers market near the White House. Eat your carrots...
Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag appears in a new White House video promoting wellness programs. Specifically, the Princeton grad is encouraging his pocket-protector-wearing minions to wear pedometers and compete with him as to how many miles they...
OMB Director Peter Orszag introduces one of the healthiest, most efficient, and most fun elements of White House life -- if only for a few weeks. Watch the video.
Your Plan Now To Round Out, Mr. President By DAVID S. BRODER It has taken much longer than President Obama hoped, but we are finally at the point where he can — and must — put his personal stamp on his main domestic initiative, the overhaul of the health care system. Now that the Senate Finance Committee has joined four others — three in the House and one other in the Senate —...
They came, we saw, we tallied... Yesterday we filled you in on exactly who made GQ's " 50 Most Powerful People in DC " (and who was snubbed). Then we asked some of our favorite nightlife and Washington social scene reporters who of the "Most Powerful" they thought would grace the mag's party last night at 701 Restaurant. So just who showed and who no-showed? There were officially...
It's a pretty A-list guest list. So who on GQ 's " 50 Most Powerful People in DC " list will show and who will no-show at tonight's party at 701 on Cap Hill? For insight and predictions, we turned to some of DC's most tried and trusted nightlife and social scene reporters- TWT 's "Green and Glover, Under Cover" columnists Stephanie Green and Liz Glover , Politico Click's Patrick...
Videos
