Today, Orszag contacted me and resolutely claims I was wrong in my reporting.
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After Stewart left the room, Orszag slumped on a couch and replayed the conversation.
Orszag is convinced that rising federal health-care costs are the most important cause of long-term deficits.
But understand that the programs that Mr. Orszag pointed out today in many ways don't work.
Dr. ORSZAG: I think that's right during a normal period of normal economic downturn.
Dr. PETER ORSZAG (Director, White House Office of Management and Budget): Thanks for having me.
Dr. ORSZAG: Look, we as a nation face a very serious medium and long-term fiscal problem.
The distinction between the Boehner and Orszag proposals is important for readers to understand.
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Orszag cites some studies about how outcomes are worse for patients that arrive on the weekends.
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Orszag tried rehearsing a better response until he had crafted something that satisfied him.
My OMB Director, Peter Orszag, will be here soon to give you the scary numbers.
Peter Orszag, another ex-Clintonite at the Brookings Institution, is gathering clever new centrist policies from academics.
Orszag is accustomed to working behind-the-scenes analyzing economic data, but now finds himself at center stage.
CNN: Orszag emerges from behind the scenes as budget is unveiled
After the election, Rubinites like Geithner, Summers, and Peter Orszag were ushered into the inner circle.
Stewart appeared in the doorway, and Orszag sprang from his chair to greet him.
Several presidents, as Orszag argued, have used reconciliation to pass legislation, including every president since Ronald Reagan.
Orszag will be also be a major player in his area of expertise -- health care legislation.
CNN: Orszag emerges from behind the scenes as budget is unveiled
Mr Orszag is right that, if implemented, this provision will represent an important lever of cost control.
In his first week at work, Peter Orszag almost set the building ablaze.
Orszag, the head of the Congressional Budget Office, is an expert on health care, pensions and Social Security policy.
Obama said he has selected Peter Orszag as his nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The budget that Orszag and his colleagues drafted was the Platonic ideal of Obamaism, a Presidential statement of principle.
Orszag believed that the ideas put forward by the Obama campaign were unproved.
Orszag called Nabors that weekend and told him that they needed to have a budget meeting the following Monday.
Orszag said only one priority competes with the president -- his two children.
CNN: Orszag emerges from behind the scenes as budget is unveiled
"This is like your relief pitcher coming into the ninth inning and wanting to redo the whole game, " Orszag said.
Mr Orszag points to the Dartmouth work to argue that up to 30% of America's health-care spending is sheer waste.
Messrs Orszag and Snower would allow workers to transfer any remaining balances in their accounts into their pensions on retirement.
The third and strongest argument Mr Orszag makes is for the potential of an independent payment-advisory board on Medicare spending.
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