So I think that the President will continue to make that point, the Secretary of Treasury and others.
However, I think what the Secretary of Treasury made clear over the weekend is that we cannot make it conditional.
And finally, we want to strengthen retirement security, which we talked about with the Secretary of Treasury, for American workers.
This is what he, as the Secretary of Treasury, is obligated to provide, is information about when we reach our debt ceiling.
Stuart Eizenstat, former deputy secretary of Treasury, came up to Lerner afterward to ask where he could get a copy of the research.
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Mr. HENRY PAULSON (U.S. Secretary of Treasury): Congress is very near completing its work to create that regulator and it must do so quickly.
He should ask the secretary of treasury to do this immediately.
And we have - when he made the announcement, we've been talking with people in the administration, the secretary of treasury and others, and we're ready to work this out.
But the Secretary of Treasury and the Director of the National Economic Council informed him, and he was engaged and constantly updated on the process throughout the afternoon and evening.
With such strongly articulated views, his nominee for Secretary of Treasury, Jack Lew, and his current Secretary of Treasury, Timothy Geithner, appear to be unlikely choices for such a sensitive cabinet position.
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She also serves as the Commission designee to the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, which is chaired by the Secretary of Treasury and was established to improve the financial literacy and education of U.S. citizens.
The eurozone crisis was very much a topic of conversation, especially at the G8, and those conversations continue, both at the highest levels as well as at the level of the Secretary of Treasury and other officials -- Lael Brainard from Treasury and others.
As you know, Matt, with the President and Tim Geithner -- Secretary of Treasury -- and others have been very engaged with their European counterparts on this issue, offering advice because we have a certain amount of experience in dealing with this kind of crisis.
But of all of them I've felt particularly privileged to work with my long-time dear friend and colleague, and your great secretary of Treasury Robert Rubin, who will be remembered as the president said so well, as one of the most successful and influential secretaries of the treasury in all American history.
Notably, recent statements by President Bush, Secretary of State James Baker, Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady, and Under Secretary of Treasury David Mulford together with press reports from unnamed "senior Administration officials" depict a U.S. government determined to tie American participation in a multilateral aid package for the Soviet Union at this time to three ostensibly stringent conditions.
Its regular attendees (both statutory and non-statutory) are the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
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He has been Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, White House chief of staff and, for a brief stretch under Gerald Ford, acting Secretary of Commerce (edging out George Shultz for the modern record for most top jobs).
The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to submit the recurring and final reports to the Congress on the national emergency declared in this order, consistent with section 401(c) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641(c)) and section 204(c) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1703(c)).
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The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA, as may be necessary to carry out section 104 of CISADA (22 U.S.C. 8513).
Persons determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the order.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA, as may be necessary to carry out section 104A of CISADA (22 U.S.C. 8514).
The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to determine that circumstances no longer warrant the blocking of the property and interests in property of a person listed in the Annex to this order, and to take necessary action to give effect to that determination.
Sec. 5. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Energy, and, as appropriate, other agencies, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order.
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The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby further authorized to exercise the functions and waiver authorities conferred upon the President by section 401(b) of CISADA (22 U.S.C. 8551(b)) with respect to the requirement to impose or maintain sanctions pursuant to IEEPA under section 105(a) of CISADA (22 U.S.C. 8514(a)) and to redelegate these functions and waiver authorities consistent with applicable law.
The three prominent Cabinet positions with second-term openings -- secretary of defense, secretary of the treasury, and CIA director -- were previously held by white men.
And in terms of the structure of the meetings, look, these are the leaders of Congress, and this is the President and the Vice President and the Secretary of the Treasury and Director of OMB, et cetera, et cetera.
"This is one of the first times that I can remember that the secretary of the Treasury is going to be almost as important as the secretary of state, " said CNN senior political analyst David Gergen, who served in the Reagan and Clinton administrations.
The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the United States Government consistent with applicable law.
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