How does it happen? Now and then, the media anoints someone a rising star, an avatar of the new regime. That person is Orszag, 40, ...
Perhaps the most important qualification that Nabors brings to the No. 2 job is that he has served as staff director to a man who ...
Zients was nominated in May for what would be his first government job after Obama's initial choice, Nancy Killefer, withdrew from consideration. He is the ...
Sunstein often makes the list of possible Supreme Court nominees, but his provocative ruminations, such as why the Occupational Safety and Health Administration might be ...
"When you go from academia to government, the first shock is having a boss," laughs Liebman, an economics professor who left Harvard's Kennedy School of ...
Returning to government has been a major adjustment for Baer, his family, and even his wardrobe. For the past eight years, Baer, 36, ran a ...
The budget process in any transition year is truncated and frenzied. But Kosiak will tell you that has never been truer than this year. "It's ...
Gordon's career has come full circle. In 1993, he broke into government as a junior policy aide in the Office of National Service, helping to ...
Briggs has a broad portfolio at OMB, dealing with budget and appropriations issues with Cabinet departments such as Commerce; Homeland Security; Housing and Urban Development; ...
Established: 1970
Address: Eisenhower Executive Office Building, 725 17th St. NW, Washington, DC 20503
Phone: 202-395-3080
2009 Budget: $88 million
Employment: 489
Web Site: www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
Function: The Office of Management and Budget assists the president in overseeing the preparation of the federal budget and supervises its administration in executive branch agencies. OMB evaluates agency programs, procedures, and policies; assesses funding demands among agencies; and sets funding priorities. It also oversees and coordinates the administration's procurement, financial management, information, and regulatory policies.
