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Perhaps Mr Orszag, now the budget director in Barack Obama's White House, is about to storm out of his grand new office.

Among the first to leave, it seems, will be Peter Orszag, head of the Office of Management and Budget.

Peter Orszag: I would agree with Bill that this is going to take a while.

Mr Orszag, never slow to press a point, wrote on his blog that this "should reinforce all our efforts to get health reform done this year. "

Peter Orszag, the White House budget director, said there were "no plans" to ask for more funds.

For weeks after Mr. Obama took office, Mr. Orszag sat directly across the table from him in the Roosevelt Room.

He would be called a sellout akin to Peter Orszag, who left government service to become a vice chairman at Citigroup.

White House budget director Peter Orszag told U. S. lawmakers Tuesday that investing in health care is key to creating economic growth.

Peter Orszag, now that you are out in the real world, give us a time continuum .

"The first step to getting out of these deficits is honesty, " said Mr Orszag.

Mr Orszag points to the Dartmouth work to argue that up to 30% of America's health-care spending is sheer waste.

A former director of the Congressional Budget Office, Mr. Orszag is what passes in the Democratic Party for a deficit hawk.

Earlier in his career, Mr Orszag was also the chief economist at the National Economic Council under Mr Clinton.

Peter Orszag, the budget director, wouldn't be called away from his efforts to reform health care.

As Mr. Orszag has emphasized, rising health care costs are the main reason long-run budget projections look so grim.

White House budget director Peter Orszag left earlier this summer.

Mr. Obama's budget director, Peter Orszag, has already left, as has his first head of the Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer.

Orszag: I actually see a few things that are optimistic.

I have a great deal of respect for Mr Orszag, but this is a simply remarkable bit of reasoning.

Budget Director Peter Orszag has said his office will give the public "full programmatic detail" on Thursday.

The third and strongest argument Mr Orszag makes is for the potential of an independent payment-advisory board on Medicare spending.

Mr. Orszag promises a deficit-reducing plan -- but not until the president's next budget in February.

Former Obama Management and Budget chief Peter Orszag is the latest to endorse the down-with-democracy movement.

Peter Orszag, his budget chief, is a former head of the Congressional Budget Office.

Mr. Orszag still plays the geek, passing out propeller hats and jokingly referring to himself as "supernerd. "

Orszag is currently the director of the congressional budget office.

Mr Orszag is right that, if implemented, this provision will represent an important lever of cost control.

Peter Orszag, Mr Obama's former budget director, says it may not matter.

Mr. Orszag won that battle, and he and others say he is enthused about his role.

Maybe, but probably not, according to the assessment from Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag.

Mr. Orszag earned master's and doctoral degrees at the London School of Economics.

Testifying before the Senate Budget Committee, Peter Orszag said that urgent attention is needed to reform the country's health care system.

In Washington, Mr. Orszag's prowess with numbers has always meant opportunity.

"We are proposing canceling the program, not delaying it, " Peter Orszag, director of theOffice of Management and Budget, said Sunday.

If the decline hadn't happened, Orszag notes, workers would have earned $500 billion more this year.

Orszag: I don't think the solution is just on the revenue side.

Orszag: Well, there is a rhetorical component, but there is also a legislative or policy component.

Orszag: I am a little hesitant to give my former boss a to-do list, but I think there are four things that need to happen.

Robert Nabors, a high-ranking congressional committee aide, will be Orszag's deputy.

Peter Orszag is well-known as a fiscal conservative, who is concerned to keep spending and tax cuts in check.

Mr Orszag is also planning to get married in the autumn.

Mr. Orszag changed his diet.

Orszag: I understand, but go out to 2016.

The recession frustrated that effort, and Mr Orszag instead ended up helping design the $787 billion stimulus package passed last year.

Lew would replace Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, who is stepping down this month.

Peter Orszag as head of the Office of Management and Budget