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...just as important, the Rice group responsible for postwar planning, led by Elliott Abrams from the National Security Council and Robin Cleveland from the Office of Management and Budget, woefully underestimated the cost of reconstructing Iraq. It was the work of that group that in large part led OMB director Mitch Daniels to estimate a year ago that the total price tag of the Iraq adventure would be just $50 million to $60 million, a range Bush surely now wishes were true...
...also became President George W. Bush’s director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from...
Bush also appointed John D. Graham, professor of policy and decision sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health as an administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the OMB. Before leaving for Washington, Graham also founded and directed the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis...
...proposal put forth by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) would shift $20 million from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, of which the Smithsonian Observatory is a major component, to the National Science Foundation. The money goes towards the observatory’s staff salaries and equipment, and the cuts would severely jeopardize the observatory’s ability to conduct meaningful, ongoing scientific research...
...federal government currently pays for the Smithsonian Observatory’s permanent infrastructure—salaries, building upkeep and equipment maintenance. The observatory then competes for outside grants to finance specific projects. But if the OMB proposal were adopted, the observatory could lose the funding to keep its scientists and equipment—an onerous and undesirable situation for an institution whose first priority should be innovative research, not cutthroat bureaucracy...