Word: omb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harshest assessments of Mclntyre come from conservatives who see the OMB'S inability to reduce the federal budget deficits as a root cause of inflation...
Jack Carlson, chief economist of the National Chamber of Commerce and a former top OMB official, says: "The President needs a change at OMB, a man who can stand toe-to-toe with someone like Labor Secretary Ray Marshall or Defense Secretary Harold Brown and tell him to drop programs." Carlson's glum conclusion: "There will be no serious budget cutting with Mclntyre there...
...September, after delaying our final consideration of the bill for a considerable time to accommodate Administration spokesmen, the OMB testified in opposition to several major aspects of the bill. Since then, there has been no attempt to tell us what the Administration...
...Office of Management and Budget has scuttled TAS and said the IRS would have to make do by merely renovating its existing, 16-year-old data bank. The Administration's decision has little to do with concerns about privacy. OMB feared that the all-embracing TAS would be vulnerable to a nationwide malfunction if it became overtaxed. The IRS says TAS would not have left taxpayers' files exposed to examinations by any more staffers than the present system: about...
...presentation to Congress on Jan. 23, Mclntyre has been zealously applying the concept to the Federal Government. The Department of Defense asked for $130.5 billion in new spending authority for fiscal 1979, but will probably get $126 billion-and that is one of the smaller cuts. According to OMB gossip, Mclntyre whacked much harder at spending proposals by the departments of Labor and Housing and Urban Development...