Word: omb
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...plan consisted only of general goals, not detailed provisions that either environmentalists or industry could bank on. As a result, both sides furiously lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Management and Budget as top officials drafted the huge bill. On one day last week one OMB official alone logged 275 telephone calls from lawmakers and Washington lobbyists...
Before Hansen could deliver his testimony, however, his text was amended by officials at the Office of Management and Budget, who routinely review statements made to Congress by members of the Administration. OMB staffers inserted a disclaimer stating that scientific projections of the impact of global warming were merely "estimates" and "not reliable predictions." To Hansen, the effect of the change was to water down his testimony. When he appeared before a Senate subcommittee, he handed out the OMB-revised written testimony, but then gave his own uncensored views of the dangers of global warming...
...OMB's action raised concern that the White House is not serious about dealing with the greenhouse threat. And the pressure on Bush increased when Britain called for rapid drafting of an international treaty to address global warming. Finally on Thursday, even as the President was busy reacting to the crisis in Panama, the White House sent a special cable to the U.S. delegation attending a U.N.-sponsored environment meeting in Geneva. The cable, signed by chief of staff John Sununu, directed the American representatives to invite the other participating nations to a global-warming workshop in Washington this fall...
...OMB Director brings idealism, pragmatism and experience in six Cabinet departments to Washington's most difficult...
...come from Bush's choice of a Defense Secretary, since he must decide whether he wants a skilled politician or a disciplined manager. Among the finalists: former Texas Senator John Tower, who has strong ties to defense contractors, and Paul O'Neill, chief executive of Alcoa and a former OMB deputy...