“Office of Management and Budget” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers added no jobs in August — an alarming setback for the economy that renewed fears of another recession and raised pressure on Washington to end the hiring standstill. (more)

It’s quite unusual to open an envelope from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and find two $1 dollar bills, especially when it’s addressed to you (or “current occupant”). But this year, thousands of Americans are sharing this experience with me. (more)

Rep. John Kline, the GOP chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, says new details reported by The Daily Caller about the GAO’s error-ridden report on for-profit colleges are “deeply troubling” and put the report’s findings in question. (more)

In the first direct confrontation between top GOP oversight official Darrell Issa and the Obama White House since Republicans obtained the power of congressional subpoena in January, Issa backed off a demand for the testimony of a top ranking official, accepting testimony by a lower ranking aide. (more)

The Senate Budget Committee, Tuesday, voted to recommend Obama’s nominee for Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the full Senate. The 11-10 vote was along party lines, with Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont absent and Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio abstaining. (more)

Following a call to arms by its CEO, a key business group plotted strategy Tuesday in a long-term war to wrest power from government bureaucracy to limit what critics call out-of-control regulations. (more)

Mitch Daniels is cheap. (more)

Republicans on the Hill are taking President Obama’s nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as a sign the White House is not serious about cutting spending. (more)

President Obama’s nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget  (OMB) tried, but failed to defend the proposed budget for fiscal year 2012 in a Senate Budget Committee hearing Thursday afternoon. (more)

President Obama on Monday proposed a two-year freeze of all pay for federal workers, excluding military personnel, in his first major post-election move to show seriousness about spending restraint and debt and deficit reduction. (more)

Democrats on Tuesday received the worst drubbing, nationally and locally, suffered by either political party in more than half a century. This battering of epic proportions, primarily a repudiation of the economic policies and high-handedness of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, was also an implicit condemnation of a left-wing regulatory philosophy that unnecessarily burdens those who create jobs and wealth. (more)

Even as the administration backs off of its devastating offshore drilling moratorium, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is standing firm in maintaining her hold on confirming Jacob Lew as the head of the Office of Management and Budget.  A Democrat herself, she could hardly be accused of spoiling for a political battle with the White House. Rather, it was the Obama administration itself that instigated the fight by sacrificing Louisiana jobs to political expediency with the issuance of the deepwater offshore energy moratorium. (more)

The Obama administration continues to demonstrate how personnel choices become policy choices.  There are innumerable examples of political appointees’ malfeasance (“the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law”) and nonfeasance (“the omission of an act that should have been performed”). (more)

The recent announcement that Larry Summers will be departing as head of President Obama’s National Economic Council (NEC) has prompted rampant speculation about what this will mean for future White House economic policy and process direction. (more)

A Gulf Coast Democrat is vowing to block Senate confirmation of President Obama’s budget director until the administration agrees to lift or ease a federal freeze on deepwater oil-and-gas drilling. (more)

In a break with the White House, Peter Orszag, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), recommended Tuesday that Congress extend the expiring Bush tax cuts for two years, then do away with them altogether. (more)

On New York City’s Avenue of the Americas, tourists can find a mathematical landmark that has grown in infamy as it has grown in digits. It is the National Debt Clock, and it has served as a publicly-displayed meter of the federal government’s spending habits for more than a decade. But as economists and politicians debate the merits of recognizing the future outflows of Social Security and Medicare as part of the debt, two different entities have already made the clock obsolete — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (more)

Last week, a group of 36 national and local businesses and free-market organizations sent President Obama a letter urging a moratorium on insourcing — a practice by which private-sector jobs are contracted into the federal government – according to a press release put out by the Business Coalition for Fair Competition (BCFC). (more)

“Things could be worse.” (more)

Days from stepping down as director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag can now add another feather to his cap: he has inspired someone to write a song in his honor. (more)