Obama scores with his choice for Budget Director--Peter Orszag. Right person, right time.

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This guy's amazing.
He is the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, has his own blog: http://cboblog.cbo.gov/
His testimony during the stimulus debate in the Senate was amazing, that's when he hit my radar.
Obama is tapping into the best our country has.

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1. 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

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3. What? the info-free post shouldn't engender a question or two?. . n/t

[annabanana]

2. Do you have a link to the transcript of the testimony?

His blog is not giving me anything except his fondness for the placebo effect in dealing with healthcare costs...

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4. Did you scroll down to the points he will address in testimony?

Scroll on down.

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5. Information from cbo website:

http://www.cbo.gov/aboutcbo/organization/od.htm

The Director of CBO oversees the agency's work in providing objective, nonpartisan, and timely analyses of economic and budgetary issues--supervising the numerous analytical papers and cost estimates that the agency produces and, to present the results, frequently testifying before the Congress. In managing the agency, the Director is responsible for a staff of 235 people and an annual budget of roughly $40 million.

Photograph of Peter R. OrszagPeter R. Orszag began his term as the seventh Director of CBO on January 18, 2007. Under his leadership, the agency has significantly expanded its focus on areas such as health care and climate change.

Before joining CBO, Dr. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. While at Brookings, he also served as Director of The Hamilton Project; Director of the Retirement Security Project; and Codirector of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture with the Urban Institute.

In previous government service, Dr. Orszag served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Senior Economic Adviser at the National Economic Council during 1997 and 1998. Earlier, he served as a staff economist and then Senior Adviser and Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

Dr. Orszag graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University and obtained an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall scholar. He has coauthored or coedited a number of books, including Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (2006), Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (2006), Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (2004), and American Economic Policy in the 1990s (2002). Dr. Orszag is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies of Sciences.

Dr. Orszag is an avid runner and the proud father of two children, Leila and Joshua.