Just announced Peter Orszag to be OMB Director

[DCBob]

Never heard of him but Leon Panetta just said he is a good choice.

From Wikipedia:

Peter R. Orszag (born December 16, 1968) is an American economist and is the Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. It was reported in the press on November 18, 2008 that he has agreed to be considered as President-Elect Obama's Office of Management and Budget Director. <1>

Orszag began his term as the seventh Director of CBO on January 18, 2007. After graduating from Phillips Exeter, he received an A.B. summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, the latter of which he attended as a Marshall Scholar.

Orszag previously served as the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at Brookings, where he directed the Hamilton Project and the Retirement Security Project.

He had also previously served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and as Senior Economist and Senior Adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration. He also formed a consulting group called Sebago Associates, which merged into Competition Policy Associates and was bought by FTI Consulting Inc.

Orszag was the co-editor of American Economic Policy in the 1990s (MIT Press: 2002), co-author of Protecting the American Homeland: A Preliminary Analysis (Brookings Institution Press: 2002), co-author of Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach (Brookings Institution Press: 2004), co-author of Protecting the Homeland 2006/7 (Brookings Institution Press: 2006), and co-editor of Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (Century Foundation Press: 2006).

He lives in Washington, D.C. with his two children, Leila and Joshua.

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Sounds good to me. Next.

[SoxFan]

1. Not Orzsag!

What the hell is Obama thinking?

:sarcasm:

[Thrill]

2. Now are we going to have people bashing a young smart guy

who is talented and qualified?

[grantcart]

6. but he knows the Clintons

[Ian David]

3. Link? Proof? Source? n/t

[DCBob]

4. It was just on MSNBC "Race to the WH".

During Leon Panetta interview.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. A Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow?!!1 What is this? Nazi Germany?

ZOMG!