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Franklin D. Raines '71, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), summed up last year's budget debate as "the need to create a win-win situation for both Republicans and Democrats...
Appointed OMB Director in 1996, Raines compared his office to that of the X-Wing commander in Star Wars navigating fighters towards the ship's small target...
...There is almost no conversation [at the OMB] that does not involve implicit negotiation. There is almost no idle chitchat," Raines said, describing the daily tensions of his office...
Raines will conclude his tenure at the OMB next month, but is a long way from leaving public service...
Despite the attempts of the federal government through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to help agencies coordinate their budgets and to ensure that they fund projects within their jurisdiction, Zare says a lack of communication still plagues the federal research funding system...