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Time to change focus of sequester talk
Cuts may be unavoidable, but Washington can figure out how to manage them to be more effective and less harmful. The $85 billion budget sequester that takes effect today is the result of miscalculations by both parties. After all, it was designed as...Tags: White House, Unemployment, Air Transportation Industry, U.S. Congress, Elections
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Senate confirms Jacob Lew as Treasury secretary
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jacob J. Lew as Treasury secretary, allowing the longtime budget expert to take office as President Obama deals with looming automatic federal spending cuts. Lew, 57, was approved by a 71-26 vote. He...
Tags: White House, Timothy Geithner, Elections, Bernard Sanders, Politics
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Senate committee OKs Jacob Lew nomination for Treasury secretary
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee voted Tuesday to confirm Jacob J. Lew as Treasury Secretary despite Republican concerns about his support for higher taxes to reduce the nation's debt as well as his tenure as a Citigroup Inc. executive before joining...
Tags: White House, Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Politics, Washington, DC
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Senate panel set to vote Tuesday on Treasury nominee Jacob Lew
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee is expected to vote to confirm Jacob J. Lew's nomination to be Treasury secretary on Tuesday, setting the stage for his confirmation by the full Senate in the coming days. Lew, the former White House chief of staff,...
Tags: White House, Timothy Geithner, Economy, Business and Finance, Elections, Politics
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Obama is a lame duck who knows how to quack
It's sometimes said that a lame-duck president is a weakened leader from the first day of his last term. The two-term limit of the 22nd Amendment, imposed by wrathful Republicans in 1951 in response to FDR's breach of the George Washington tradition, is...Tags: Chuck Hagel, Joe Biden, Elections, Iraq, George Washington
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Turning the tables on Jack Lew
WASHINGTON -- President Obama won re-election in part by beating up on his opponent for receiving big corporate payouts in exchange for dubious work and for socking away money in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands. So it's a bit, well, rich that...
Tags: White House, Political Fundraising, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Elections, Politics
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Treasury nominee Jacob Lew faces tough questions on Citigroup job
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary nominee Jacob J. Lew on Wednesday faced tough questions from Republican senators about his tenure as a top executive at Citigroup Inc. in the years leading up to the financial crisis. Lew was criticized for not knowing...
Tags: Investments, Mitt Romney, Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Politics
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Treasury nominee Jacob J. Lew says he would work to boost recovery
WASHINGTON -- Treasury secretary nominee Jacob J. Lew told senators Wednesday that his top priority was to boost the economic recovery while also grappling with the nation's growing debt. In his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee,...Tags: White House, U.S. Congress, Timothy Geithner, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Ex-Treasury Secretary Geithner's new job: fellow at N.Y. think tank
WASHINGTON -- It didn't take long for former Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to land a new job, and it's not on Wall Street -- though it's in the same area code. The Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank based in New York, said...
Tags: White House, Timothy Geithner, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, International Monetary Fund
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As he departs, Geithner says 'not a chance' he'll be next Fed chair
WASHINGTON -- As Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner prepared to leave office Friday, he was clear about one thing he won't be doing in the future -- running the Federal Reserve. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's second term expires in January 2014...
Tags: White House, Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama, POLITICO LLC, Ben Bernanke
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Obama to name new White House chief of staff
WASHINGTON -- President Obama will name Denis McDonough as the new White House chief of staff and announce other changes to his staff Friday afternoon, a White House official said. McDonough is deputy national security advisor and a trusted advisor to...
Tags: White House, Elections, Politics, Washington, DC, Tom Daschle
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Obama picks foreign policy aide as chief of staff
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced Friday that his new chief of staff is longtime trusted aide Denis McDonough, whom the president described as a close friend unafraid to deliver straight talk. McDonough has been a longtime foreign...
Tags: National Security, White House, John Brennan, Central Intelligence Agency, Afghanistan
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