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  • Bob Rubin's Coup Is Now Complete

    Robert Rubin has completed the remarkable feat of placing five of his acolytes in key positions of power in the Obama administration.

  • White House Feels Sequestration Pain in Staff Furloughs

    President Barack Obama began experiencing first-hand the effects of across-the-board federal spending cuts as the first wave of White House furloughs kicked in yesterday.

  • Obama Adviser Sperling Says Spending Cuts May Hurt Growth

    Republicans and Democrats must agree on a “balanced compromise” on budget deficit reduction that avoids “penny-wise but pound-foolish” spending cuts, a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama said.

  • Obama Drops Stimulus for Benefit Cut to Woo Republicans

    Less than a week after job-creation figures fell short of expectations and underscored the U.S. economy’s fragility, President Barack Obama will send Congress a budget that doesn’t include the stimulus his allies say is needed and instead embraces cuts in an appeal to Republicans.

  • Obama Phones Lawmakers Seeking Ways to Recast Budget Cuts

    President Barack Obama has begun contacting Republican and Democratic senators in search of a budget compromise even as each party blamed the other for across-the-board cuts in government spending.

  • Ending Oil Subsidies May Boost Clean Energy, Sperling Says

    Ending billions of dollars in U.S. tax breaks for the oil and gas industry would provide money for investments to encourage clean-energy technologies, said Gene Sperling , director of the National Economic Council.

  • Obama Said to Name Sperling as Economic Council Head

    President Barack Obama will name Gene Sperling , a counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner , as head of the National Economic Council, according to a person familiar with the matter.

  • Sperling Says `Absolutist’ Republicans Blocking Budget Progress

    Intractable Republican lawmakers have blocked progress in replacing recent automatic U.S. federal budget cuts with a more palatable option, said National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling.

  • Sperling Challenges Republicans to Offer Cliff Plan (Transcript)

    President Barack Obama’s top economic adviser, Gene Sperling, challenged Republican congressional leaders to put an offer on the table in fiscal- cliff talks and defended Obama’s debt-reduction proposals as concrete and detailed. Sperling spoke in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Julianna Goldman on “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend.

  • Congress’ Lame-Duck Creates Deal Opening, Sperling Says

    Congress and President Barack Obama shouldn’t waste the chance to reach an agreement on fiscal policy in the period between the Nov. 6 election and the end of the year, said Gene Sperling, director of Obama’s National Economic Council.

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