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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 924927" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>[h=1]<a href="http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/01/10/will-obamas-inexperienced-controversial-deputy-omb-director-heather-higginbottom-take-jack-lews-place/" target="_blank">Will Obama’s Inexperienced, ‘Controversial’ Deputy OMB Director Heather Higginbottom Take Jack Lew’s Place?</a>[/h] Mr. Obama’s <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-william-daley-to-step-down-as-obamas-chief-of-staff-20120109,0,1505407.story" target="_blank">decision today</a> to make Jack Lew White House chief of staff leaves deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Heather Higginbottom to take Mr. Lew’s place as the director of OMB. As <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/203171-lew-promotion-leaves-controversial-deputy-at-top-of-omb" target="_blank"><em>The Hill</em></a> newspaper reports, Ms. Higginbottom has only served one month in her present role as deputy director of OMB and is considered a “controversial appointee” due to her thin–some would say “nonexistent”–budgetary resume. Prior to becoming deputy director of OMB, Ms. Higginbottom was a deputy policy adviser to President Obama and worked on his campaign as a policy director.</p><p> But it was Ms. Higginbottom’s lackluster performance during a March Senate Budget Committee hearing that raised Republican concerns about whether Ms. Higginbottom was even qualified to serve as deputy director of OMB.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 924927, member: 12952"] [h=1][URL="http://biggovernment.com/whall/2012/01/10/will-obamas-inexperienced-controversial-deputy-omb-director-heather-higginbottom-take-jack-lews-place/"]Will Obama’s Inexperienced, ‘Controversial’ Deputy OMB Director Heather Higginbottom Take Jack Lew’s Place?[/URL][/h] Mr. Obama’s [URL="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-william-daley-to-step-down-as-obamas-chief-of-staff-20120109,0,1505407.story"]decision today[/URL] to make Jack Lew White House chief of staff leaves deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Heather Higginbottom to take Mr. Lew’s place as the director of OMB. As [URL="http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/203171-lew-promotion-leaves-controversial-deputy-at-top-of-omb"][I]The Hill[/I][/URL] newspaper reports, Ms. Higginbottom has only served one month in her present role as deputy director of OMB and is considered a “controversial appointee” due to her thin–some would say “nonexistent”–budgetary resume. Prior to becoming deputy director of OMB, Ms. Higginbottom was a deputy policy adviser to President Obama and worked on his campaign as a policy director. But it was Ms. Higginbottom’s lackluster performance during a March Senate Budget Committee hearing that raised Republican concerns about whether Ms. Higginbottom was even qualified to serve as deputy director of OMB. [/QUOTE]
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