The White House announced that Rob Portman was stepping down as budget director for personal reasons.
And it makes sense to have a budget director in order to do that.
Alice Rivlin, who was budget director under President Bill Clinton, says programs have enormous staying power.
In 1977, a Senate committee hastily approved Bert Lance as former President Jimmy Carter's budget director.
Burwell, head of the Walmart Foundation, will become the next budget director and oversee our spending policies.
Obama's budget director made a vow Sunday that the president will bring a halt to pork-laden bills.
Panetta was an eight-term congressman who also served as former President Clinton's budget director and chief of staff.
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White House budget director Jacob Lew invited the commission to meet with him and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Jack is the only budget director in history to preside over a budget surplus for three consecutive years.
Among those in Miami questioned by the SEC was Michael Boudreaux, who was fired as budget director in 2010.
Replacing Andy Card with White House Budget Director Josh Bolten is not going to make much of a difference.
He brings nearly three decades of government service to the job, including two stints as White House budget director.
Mr Lew, a former White House budget director, helped Mrs Clinton win a 10% budget increase for the department.
Sylvia Matthews Burwell, the President's pick for Office of Management and Budget Director, is an expert on budgetary and domestic policy.
"The reaction of Budget Director Robert Megna to our impartial review is puzzling, " Deputy Comptroller Robert Ward said in a statement.
As White House chief of staff and former White House budget director, Mr Lew understands the US budget inside and out.
In a letter to House leaders, White House budget director Franklin Raines warned the administration would "vigorously oppose" the domestic spending cuts.
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He focused on the dropped federal prosecutions of former U.S. budget director David Stockman and David Pinkerton, a former AIG managing director.
Obama appointed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his budget director Jack Lew to negotiate with four members of Congress from both parties.
Perhaps Mr Orszag, now the budget director in Barack Obama's White House, is about to storm out of his grand new office.
Republican candidate Joseph Lhota, a former city budget director, called it problematic that Bloomberg's proposal didn't set aside money for resolving labor matters.
Earlier this year, some advisers, most notably Budget Director Peter Orszag, were citing deficits as a reason to minimize more spending on jobs.
Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, said DiNapoli's review was based on misunderstandings and misrepresentations of a balanced budget that controls spending and borrowing.
Frank Raines, the Budget Director, pre-emptively took his name out of the running, but Clinton is said to be pressing him to reconsider.
Mr. Obama praised Mr. Lew's advice on the economy and stressed he also has confidence in his budget director's ability to handle foreign-policy issues.
He met every Friday morning with Herbert Lord, his budget director, so that the two of them could draw lines through the smallest items.
Last week, White House budget director Jacob Lew issued spending guidance to federal departments and agencies that could be bad news for military contractors.
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Former Clinton White House budget director Alice Rivlin worked closely with him on the model, and it was refined after further collaboration with Sen.
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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.
By contrast, Peter Orszag, Obama's budget director, vowed to congressional leaders last week that 75 percent of the money would be spent within 18 months.
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