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Mary Jo White's spin at SEC's revolving door
One of the oft-repeated justifications for why Wall Street must be regulated by Wall Streeters is that what goes on there is both so complex and so essential that only those who have been part of it can be trusted to oversee it. This argument is bunk, of...Tags: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Lawyers, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., National Economic Council, Mary Jo White
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Treasury Secretary Lew to press Chinese leaders on cyber attacks
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew plans to pressure Chinese leaders to crack down on cyber attacks against U.S. targets when he visits Beijing this week on his first foreign trip since being confirmed. A senior Obama administration...
Tags: Xi Jinping, Beijing (China), Washington, DC, White House, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Sequestration was Obama's idea; now he doesn't like it?
I was dismayed by your recent, misleading article on the Republican's responsibility for the budget sequester (The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). Jack Lew, the White House chief of staff and budget director, set up the sequester in 2011, and Rob Nabors,...Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Harry Reid, U.S. Senate, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Politics
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White House to nominate new budget director
WASHINGTON – As he prepares for more spending battles with Congress, President Obama plans to nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, head of the Walmart Foundation, as his next budget director, the White House said Sunday. A former deputy budget...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Charity, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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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: Career and Workplace, Republican Party, U.S. Congress, The Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama
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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: Timothy Geithner, U.S. Senate, Jeff Sessions, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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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: Harry Reid, U.S. Senate, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Finance, Republican Party
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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: Timothy Geithner, U.S. Senate, Finance, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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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: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Joe Biden, Jules Witcover, NATO, Chuck Hagel
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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: U.S. Senate, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Political Fundraising, Mitt Romney, Republican Party
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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: Chuck Grassley, Citigroup Incorporated, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Orrin Hatch, Investments
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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: Timothy Geithner, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Finance, Republican Party, U.S. Congress
Mar 19, 2013
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Feb 13, 2013
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Feb 13, 2013
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