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Rivlin brings significant budgetary experience and knowledge of federal policymaking to the commission. In addition to acting as the first director of the Congressional Budget Office under President Jimmy Carter, Rivlin served as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton administration...
Fudge, in contrast, has come to prominence through the corporate world. Named by a 2003 issue of Fortune Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women in American business, Fudge served as chairman and CEO of marketing giant Young & Rubicam Brands from 2003 to 2006 and has held presidencies at both General Mills and General Foods...
David Cote, chairman, CEO, and president of technology company Honeywell, and Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, were also nominated by Obama on Friday to serve on the commission...
...opportunity to make money. Financial markets are amoral, feral beasts. If they see a weakness, they go for it. And Greece was seen as weak." He admits that the role of Goldman Sachs and other major banks in helping Greece disguise its mounting debts - which U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pledged on Thursday, Feb. 25, to investigate - reinforces the image of evil geniuses pulling the market's strings. But Begg stresses that conspiracy theories were being bandied about long before the Goldman Sachs revelations emerged and were characterized by deliberately vague allegations about political and media interests...
...chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Jack measured the strength of our country by its military might but also by the well-being of its people. He made sure the U.S. government supported important scientific research to fight breast cancer, prostate cancer, diabetes and HIV/AIDS...