Clinton called it a "good, constructive suggestion" and dispatched his chief of staff and budget director to drum up support for it among lawmakers and editorial boards.
He was excellent as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and a great chief of staff to the President.
The incoming Republican budget chief of the House, Paul Ryan, is saying that he will demand spending concessions from the administration in exchange for an agreement -- a willingness to lift the national debt ceiling.
Admiral Mike Mullen, the current Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff and former Chief of Naval Operations, has suggested that budget deficits may be the biggest threat facing the nation.
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The IMF highlights several areas of concern, chief among them the parlous state of Iraq's budget.
Panetta was an eight-term congressman who also served as former President Clinton's budget director and chief of staff.
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For example, the bill includes a pet idea of White House budget chief Peter Orszag, called the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
As White House chief of staff and former White House budget director, Mr Lew understands the US budget inside and out.
Several of the co-authors used to be advisers to President Obama, including former budget chief Peter Orszag, former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta, and former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services head Donald Berwick.
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They will have the power to hire and fire chief constables and set local police objectives and the budget - but chief constables will remain in charge of the direction and control of the police force.
PPCs will have the power to hire and fire chief constables and set local police objectives and the budget - but chief constables will remain in charge of the direction and control of the police force.
These commissioners will have the power to hire and fire chief constables and set local police objectives and the budget - but chief constables will remain in charge of the direction and control of the police force.
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Under the coalition's plans, commissioners in England and Wales will have the power to hire and fire chief constables and set local police objectives, and the budget - but chief constables will remain in charge of the direction and control of the police force.
The price distortions in the CMS program are likely to ricochet throughout the health sector, making it difficult if not impossible to find the true competitive price for medical devices in the future, according to Tom Bradley, chief of Medicare cost estimates at the Congressional Budget Office.
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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici described as "excellent" a Thursday breakfast meeting between he, White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, and House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich. ( 41K AIFF sound or 41K WAV sound) Domenici said some progress had been made, and after the meeting, the three negotiators announced Friday's face-to-face session between Clinton and the Republican leadership.
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As chief of staff, Bowles helped negotiate the 1997 budget, the first balanced budget in 30 years.
Mr Bercow paid tribute to Chancellor George Osborne for his "bold" decision to ensure that the Treasury committee would have a veto on the appointment of the Office for Budget Responsibility chief Robert Chote.
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So when you hear the House majority leader fairly purring about one of them--particularly one who happens to be the new White House budget chief--it's time to wonder: Has the thawing of partisan hatred begun?
However, Lew became increasingly numbers focused, serving as the Associate Director for Legislative Affairs and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget and later, the managing director of Citi Global Wealth Management and chief operating officer Citigroup Alternative Investments.
Before becoming chief of the Chicago system in 1995, he was budget director for Mayor Richard Daley, and before that was Illinois' top budget analyst.
Peter Davies, chief executive of CEOP, said the organisation's own budget would need to be reduced by 10% over four years.
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Key members of Obama's economic team include New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner as treasury secretary, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers as chief of the National Economic Council, and Peter Orszag as his nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget.
O'Neill was such a whiz at mastering the details of Medicare and Social Security that Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff, a young guy named Dick Cheney, promoted him to deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The commissioner will be responsible for the force's budget, and the hiring and firing of chief constables.
But another more liberal school of thought, popularized by Obama's budget chief Peter Orszag, health advisor Ezekiel Emanuel and the new Medicare administrator Donald Berwick, says that the government should play a role in studying the "comparative effectiveness" of different treatment options.
Mr. Obama chose Daniel Werfel, the controller of the Office of Management and Budget, equivalent to the government's chief financial officer.
Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, urged the government to use next month's Budget to unlock the finance to deliver more affordable family homes.
And yet this is the same Chamber of Commerce that gets much of its income from the same corporations whose chief executives now consider a budget compromise involving higher taxes as their top priority.
Merseyside's chief fire officer has warned of "substantial consequences" if the service's budget is cut further.
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He was preceded by budget chief Peter Orszag, and Christina Romer, who was chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisors.
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