It’s hard to imagine a clearer sign of Obama’s planned intransigence on the looming debt talks then his selection of Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary. Supporters of the nomination hail Lew’s long experience at the Office of Management and Budget
The most liberal and conservative elements of the United States Senate are coming together to oppose the nomination of Jack Lew as President Barack Obama’s next Treasury secretary. One might think that Jack Lew, a man who was mentored by
On February 13, 2011, President Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew went on CNN and claimed that Mr. Obama’s budget will pay down the national debt. The plan, Lew said, “will get us, over the next several years, to
The White House has indicated that President Obama plans to name Jack Lew, his chief of staff, to replace Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary. Lew is a life-time political staffer, who first started working on the Hill in the 1970s.
On Wednesday, the Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said he plans to vigorously oppose President Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew. “Jack Lew must never be Secretary of Treasury,” said Mr. Sessions in a
In the wake of the financial meltdown, President Barack Obama derided Wall Street bonuses as “obscene,” calling them examples of “fat cats who are getting awarded for their failure.” But now, Mr. Obama has announced that he will nominate as his
Jack Lew, current White House Chief of Staff and reportedly President Barack Obama’s choice for Secretary of the Treasury in his second term, so irritated congressional Republicans during debt ceiling negotiations in 2011 that Speaker of the House John Boehner
Having spent his first term bashing credit card companies and the mega rich, President Barack Obama is considering adding a credit card company CEO worth $125 million to his cabinet. American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault reportedly tops the White House
Even as the media complains that Republican House officials have installed males at the top of their committees, it ignores the fact that President Obama’s senior advisors are almost entirely white males. The only top advisor who is a female
Today, White House officials – but not President Obama – met with the US Chamber of Commerce to discuss the fiscal cliff situation. In 2010, the Democratic National Committee suggested that the US Chamber of Commerce was taking “secret foreign
WH Chief of Staff Jack Lew discusses how Obamacare isn’t a tax on Fox News Sunday for several minutes.
The only legal peg on which Chief Justice Roberts was able to hang his hat in ruling Obamacare constitutional was a broad reading of the Taxing Clause. In order to do so, he had to deliberately misread the Obamacare law;
On Monday, Government Services Administration chief Martha Johnson resigned as news of a lavish 2010 Las Vegas conference came to light. The event, held at the M Resort Spa Casino on October 25-29, cost taxpayers $820,000 and included “theatrical talent,”
If you shake out the Obama budget in terms of bold headlines, it’s really a class-warfare, tax-the-rich budget. Layer upon layer of tax hikes are piled on successful investors, small-business owners, and corporations. The capital-gains tax goes from 15 percent
On the Sunday edition of ABC’s This Week, conservative commentator George Will weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Obama Administration’s policy to force Catholic institutions to provide contraception services that conflict with the Church’s beliefs. Mr. Will laid a portion
With less than a month to go before President Obama is required by law to submit a budget to Congress (February 6th), Mr. Obama’s decision today to make Jack Lew White House chief of staff leaves deputy director of the
With less than a month to go before President Obama is required by law to submit a budget to Congress (February 6th), Mr. Obama’s decision today to make Jack Lew White House chief of staff leaves deputy director of the
President Obama’s decision yesterday to replace White House chief of staff William Daley with the director of the Office of Management and Budget Jack Lew is raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill as Washington watchers recall Mr. Lew’s past statements. On
President Obama’s decision today to replace White House chief of staff William Daley with the director of the Office of Management and Budget Jack Lew is raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill as Washington watchers recall Mr. Lew’s past statements. On
Wash Times: Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget Jack Lew refused to answer questions about Solyndra on Tuesday when he was asked by the Washington Times’ affiliated radio show, America’s Morning News, if he let Energy
Budget Director Jack Lew went on Fox News to extoll the virtues of President Obama’s new tax hike proposal, but couldn’t answer a very important, fundamental question: how will this create jobs?
From The Financial Times: Barbara Mikulski, Democratic senator from Maryland, best captured the turn of events in the critical US debt talks. After emerging from a lunch meeting on Thursday with members of her party and Jack Lew, the White
As uncertain and unruly and disheveled as the debt-ceiling debate may be, there are still good grounds to reach a deal. It could help the economy. It could keep the policy ball moving in the direction of smaller government. It
“All options are on the table” say many GOP lawmakers. When they then walked out of the debt talk meeting last week it drew the ire of some. The question to many was, “How can all options seriously be on
