... efficient health care system, "We are on an utterly unsustainable fiscal course," said the White House budget director, Peter Orszag. Some budget-restraint activists claim even the debt understates the nation's true liabilities. The Peter G ...

... expected to stress that pledge at a second news conference on Tuesday. Democratic officials said he intended to name Peter Orszag, currently the head of the Congressional Budget Office, to be his budget director. Obama and President George W ...

... s announcement that he hopes to create a recession-busting 2.5 million jobs by 2010. He spoke as he appointed Peter Orszag, currently head of the Congressional Budget Office, to be his own budget director. Obama's comments came at his ...

... named New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner as his treasury secretary and Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag as his candidate to run the White House Office of Management and Budget. Geithner was a Treasury Department official ...

... was "significant discussion about the CBO numbers" at the White House meeting. He said Obama's budget director, Peter Orszag, who recently headed the CBO, told participants that the study analyzed only 40 percent of the pending stimulus bill ...

... the federal deficit to an all-time high for the first four months of the budget year. Obama's budget director, Peter Orszag, told lawmakers recently that even after the economy recovers, annual deficits could reach $750 billion or so and ...

... to families that have lost ground the past eight years," Geithner said. Geithner and White House Budget Director Peter Orszag testified at separate congressional hearings Tuesday, giving lawmakers their first opportunity to publicly question ...

... health care reform as much as I do," he told reporters. - Advertisement - Geithner and White House budget director Peter Orszag returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of hearings on Obama's $3.6 trillion tax and spending proposal ...

... costly recession." "It's way too soon to be start judging success or failure here," White House budget director Peter Orszag said on CBS' "The Early Show." ''We inherited a big mess." This week, Republicans responded. McCain took aim ...

... in a in a bad situation." - Advertisement - Just a week ago, White House Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag declared that "fundamentally, the economy is weak." Days later, Obama told reporters he was confident in the economy ...