Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reduction on which Clinton campaigned. "Bill didn't want a brain trust," a transition official remarked. "He needed a sales force -- and that's what he's got." Indeed, Clinton, the Washington "outsider," might be said to have created the capital's most potent lobbying firm: Bentsen, Panetta, Rubin & Altman...
...Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, 71, is a business-friendly millionaire who chairs the powerful Finance Committee. California Congressman Leon Panetta, 54, named as Clinton's Budget Director, commands high regard from his peers for his work as chairman of the House Budget Committee. Bentsen's deputy will be Roger Altman, 47, who served at Treasury under President Carter. Altman, an investment banker like Rubin, knows financiers from New York to Tokyo...
...Committee, was the capstone as Treasury Secretary. Accenting his desire to work with Congress, Clinton tapped Leon Panetta, who chairs the House Budget Committee, as OMB director. Wall Street was represented by Robert Rubin as the head of the new National Economic Council in the White House, and Roger Altman, a Clinton college classmate, as Bentsen's deputy. Alice Rivlin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, will be Panetta's deputy. The solid choices signaled Clinton's concern with the deficit and need to reassure business...
Clinton's demeanor on Thursday was a bit stiff, perhaps because those first nominees (save Altman) represented a generation older than his own. How different his mood on Friday, when he was surrounded by appointees whom he genuinely enjoys and who fit his vow of "a new generation of leaders." Harvard political economist Robert Reich, a Rhodes scholar with Clinton, will be Secretary of Labor. Health and Human Services went to Donna Shalala, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and a friend of Hillary Clinton's. Another woman becomes chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: Laura D'Andrea Tyson...
...team. Clinton's choice for Treasury Secretary, aides say, is Lloyd Bentsen, the Senate Finance Committee chairman. The senior Senator from Texas, who was nominated for Vice President in 1988, is seen as having the stature and experience to steer Clinton's economic plan through Congress. Investment banker Roger Altman, a Treasury official in the Carter Administration, is said to be the leading contender for deputy secretary...