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Jacob Joseph "Jack" Lew (born August 29, 1955) is the 25th and current White House Chief of Staff. Previously, he was the Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1998 to 2001 and from 2010 to 2012.
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The White House is delaying for one week the release of President Obama's budget for the 2013 fiscal year that starts Oct.
1, a decision that administration officials say was based on "the need to finalize decisions and technical details" but which Republicans say is a direct violation of law."This will mark the third time in four years the president has missed his statutory requirement to present a budget on time, while trillion-dollar budget deficits continue to mount. As the president announces another missed deadline, tomorrow marks the 1,000th day Senate Democrats have gone without any budget at all," said House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis.Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, called it "an inauspicious way to launch his State of the Union address."The 1974 Budget Act requires the president to submit a budget request to Congress on the first Monday in February -- which this year is Feb. 6 -- but the administration has schedul...Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu said Thursday she will block a Senate vote to confirm the nominee to a key White House economic office to protest the six-month moratori...
Deep water oil drills quieted by a six-month moratorium will again hum off the Gulf Coast, helping an industry that, despite its dangers, puts needed money in the po...
Warning that the latest document leak by WikiLeaks has damaged national security, the White House on Monday ordered departments across the federal government to revi...
Moving full bore to contain the damage from the latest WikiLeaks document dump, the Obama White House on Monday ordered a top-down review on safeguarding classified ...
WASHINGTON -- Another disconnect between two White House spokesmen who are giving conflicting answers to coming changes in the Obama administration. White House Pres...
The Obama administration is lifting the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico -- as long as oil companies comply with several new rules that opp...
The thousands of pages of newly leaked State Department documents are sprinkled with examples of name-calling and diplomatic horse-trading, causing consternation for...
President Obama is offering his spending blueprint for the next decade -- an election-year document that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction through cu...
President Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion spending plan on Monday for 2013 and a 10-year vision that seeks to cut $4 trillion from the overall deficit, but does littl...
Conservative flashpoint issues from abortion and abstinence education to President Barack Obama's health care law are the biggest obstacles to Congress completing a ...
Say goodbye to Martha Johnson. This week she was forced to resign as chief of the General Services Administration , the federal agency that manages real estate for t...
The White House has asked federal agencies to propose ways to cut spending by 10 percent or more for the upcoming budget, underscoring the political jockeying under ...
A special lighting ceremony is planned for the National Hanukkah Menorah near the White House on the first night of the eight-day Jewish holiday.On Tuesday, Office o...
The Obama administration was concerned about the financial health of Solyndra -- and the political consequences if it failed -- even as officials publicly declared t...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Tuesday nominated Jacob Lew to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget , saying Lew's experience as budget director...
Confirming a new budget director for President Obama may end up being a lot less controversial than actually passing a budget.As lawmakers screened Jacob Lew, Obama'...
HONOLULU -- President Barack Obama will push back the release of his budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 by about a week, a delay administration officials blame in ...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's budget director is pointing to spending cuts in three programs as examples of the "tough choices" ahead in the White House bud...
Daley Pick Would Close Chicago Loop in White House"I'm not going to comment on personnel speculation."-- White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to FOX News on repo...
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