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...dropped or questions go unanswered. He insists on punctuality, and, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, once required all staff members to clock in and out -- an unheard- of regimen on Capitol Hill. "He wanted an honest day's work out of us," said a longtime aide. Another OMB official admitted last week that Panetta's criticism can be so withering that she sometimes takes "the long way around" the rectangular corridor of the Old Executive Office Building rather than risk running into him outside his nearby office. Asked last week whether little things or big things seemed...
Panetta has had his run-ins with Clinton too. In April 1993 it was the OMB director who first complained in public that the nascent Clinton team was losing its way amid a host of false starts and foolish early moves. That's the kind of candor Panetta will need if he is to bring order to Clinton's sprawling management style. But Panetta insists that Clinton longs to be better managed. More discipline, Panetta said last week, "is something he wants...
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Warren Christopher has written a stern letter to Leon Panetta, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, complaining about the OMB's desire to cut the State Department's annual budget 10%, along with that of all other agencies. Despite its weighty content, the two-page, single-spaced letter, a copy of which was obtained by TIME, is addressed Dear Leon and signed simply Chris, the Secretary's familiar name...
Edley, who is Black, will take a post in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). His departure reduces to two the number of Black tenured professors teaching at the Law School...
Edley said his new job as associate director of OMB "involves the responsibility for coordinating the preparation of budgets for numerous agencies," including the departments of Justice, the Treasury, Commerce, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development...