... Washington to receive school vouchers, the House will vote on a Quixotic attempt to eliminate the President's Council of Economic Advisers. "What they want to do is they want to avoid tough votes on appropriations bills," said Rep. David Dreier ...

... international financial crises overseas. Obama named Christina Romer, an economics professor, as chair of his Council of Economic Advisers. Melody Barnes, a former aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, was named director of the White House Domestic ...

... first term, and Harvard professor Martin Feldstein, an informal John McCain adviser and the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan. Feldstein recommended a $400 billion investment in one year, Obama aides ...

... Advertisement - Transition officials said Christina Romer, an economics professor who Obama has chosen as chair of his Council of Economic Advisers, opened the meeting by arguing that historical data and wide-ranging expert opinions suggest that upcoming ...

... President Barack Obama's National Economic Council, and Christina Romer, the head of the president's Council of Economic Advisers. The discussions also included top banking regulators Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance ...

... the Great Depression, the answer was, "Quite clearly, 'No,"' said Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Reagan White House. "You don't have that certainty today," he said. "It's not only that the ...

... by 380 points as investors expressed disappointment about a lack of details. Christina Romer, head of the Council of Economic Advisers, said Sunday that it's important for investors to know that the administration is bringing a full array ...

... incredibly confident" that the president's policies will "do the job" for the economy. White House Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Christina Romer insisted that the nation's flailing economy will be rebounding by 2010. Administration ...

... thinking, keeping him apprised of the situation," said Austan Goolsbee, a member of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers and the advisory board's staff director. If Volcker has an office, White House aides say, it's more ...

... January, the first nationwide loss of jobs in more than four years. Edward Lazear, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, predicted, "The stimulus will have the effect of increasing jobs by about half a million above the number ...