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...White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was among the six winners last week of the 2005 Innovations in American Government Award, a $100,000 prize awarded by the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) to promote efficiency in government...
...statement last Wednesday, President Bush said, “I congratulate the hard-working employees at OMB for winning this award...We are changing the way the Federal government thinks about program management and budgeting...
...concrete program to dislocate and traumatize the here-and-now of American society") and so stunningly self-centered (the Reagan revolution was not Reagan's, "it was mine") that it provokes a bit of perverse admiration. Surely this is a hoax. The onetime boy wonder of the OMB has to be better than he reads...
...billion budget was $57.5 billion less than it would have been if current spending programs continued unabated. The Senate declared the total savings next year would be only $55 billion. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, working with projections that in the past have often proved more realistic than OMB'S, said the new budget would save only $39 billion...
...OMB was created by President Nixon in 1970. The first director was George Shultz. He was succeeded in 1972 by Caspar Weinberger. Before that there was the Bureau of the Budget, set up in 1921 by President Warren G. Harding. Its first director was Charles G. Dawes...