ABC : The Obama administration, under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the reporting outlets had submitted "unrealistic data," according to a document obtained by ABC News. The Office of Management and Budget document shows that before an Oct. 30 progress report on the program the...
. Last week, Mr. Obama signed defense-policy legislation that included an unrelated measure widening federal hate-crimes laws to cover sexual orientation and gender identification -- 12 years after it was first introduced. The same legislation also tightened the rules of admissible evidence for military commissions, an issue that consumed Congress in debate in 2007 but received almost no attention...
(See Corrections & Amplifications item below .) Most economists believe the U.S. doesn't need another round of stimulus now despite expectations of continued severe job losses. Just eight of 51 economists in The Wall Street Journal's latest forecasting survey said more stimulus is necessary, suggesting an average of about $600 billion in additional spending. On average, the economists forecast...
WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- Republicans on Capitol Hill Wednesday said the Obama administration's economic stimulus plan has been mishandled and overly optimistic about U.S. job creation. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., was among the GOP members of Congress who said at a House committee hearing that the $787 billion spending plan had failed to create jobs and hold unemployment at 8 percent. I am convinced...
Rob Nabors, Deputy Director for Management and Budget, gives his no-nonsense take on the so-called Republican alternative budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). DNC leader Tim Kaine was just as dismissive yesterday. "The House GOP budget would be just an April Fool’s day joke if it didn’t actually reflect the true priorities of House Republicans and what they would do if they had...
The Wall Street Journal reports that on a conference call with reporters, top White House budge official Rob Nabors said they would examine the reform outline put forward by Rep. Paul Ryan, the top Republican on the House budget committee, and would have more to say on the subject of Social Security reform soon. This is good news, as substantive prospects for reform are actually higher now than in...
During the noon ET hour of the April 1 edition of Fox News' Happening Now , as co-host Jon Scott was interviewing Rob Nabors, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, Fox News again aired "FOXfact[s]" that were nearly identical to portions of an op-ed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) published in that day's Wall Street Journal . Media Matters for America noted that nearly identical "FOXfact[s]"...
President-elect Barack Obama with Budget Director-designate Peter Orszag (left) and Deputy Budget Director-designate Rob Nabors, after a meeting of Obama's top economic advisers in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP) read more
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to go through the federal budget ‘line by line’ to root out waste. Today he announced the hiring of an experienced federal management expert to help him do that: As the first Chief Performance Officer, working with Peter Orszag and Rob Nabors at the Office of Management and Budget, Nancy Killefer is uniquely qualified to lead that...
At a press conference in Chicago today, President-elect Barack Obama announced additional members of his economic team -- nominating Peter Orszag as Director and Rob Nabors as Deputy Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
US President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated Peter Orszag as head of White House's Office of Management and Budget and Rob Nabors as his deputy.
President-elect Obama has named Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag as the next director of the Office of Management and Budget. Obama also selected Rob Nabors to serve as deputy director of OMB.
CHICAGO, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Rob Nabors, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, has worked in the OMB before. Nabors, born in 1971 at Fort Dix, N.J., is the son of an Army major-general has a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master's from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He first joined the OMB during the...
Rob Nabors, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, has worked in the OMB before.Nabors, born in 1971 at Fort Dix, N.J., is the son of an Army major-general has a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master's from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.He first joined the OMB during the Clinton administration as a...
Obama selects Peter Orszag and Robert Nabors as Director and Deputy Director, respectively, of OMB. Posted in Barack Obama, Democrats, Economy, election 2008, News, opinion, politics Tagged: Barack Obama, deficits, economic crisis, Economy, fiscal responsibility, Jobs, OMB, Peter Orszag, Rob Nabors
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