Gene Sperling
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: (L-R) National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling; Acting OMB Director Jeffrey Zients and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney participate in a press conference on U.S. President Barack Obama's proposed budget April 10, 2013 in Washington, DC. Obama's budget for fiscal year 2014 totals $3.77 trillion in spending.
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We believe that manufacturing is worthy of that priority because it punches above its weight economically
The era of anybody using the potential of default or tarnishing the full faith and credit of the United States as budget tactic or negotiating tool has to be over ... He's made clear that he's simply not going to negotiate on the debt limit, that it is the responsibility of the United States Congress to authorize payments of debt that have already been obligated.
The era of anybody using the potential of default or tarnishing the full faith and credit of the United States as budget tactic or negotiating tool has to be over ... He's made clear that he's simply not going to negotiate on the debt limit, that it is the responsibility of the United States Congress to authorize payments of debt that have already been obligated.More quotes »
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WH official: Obama won't negotiate on debt limit
A top White House official said Thursday that President Obama won't haggle over a debt ceiling increase later this year and risk a repeat of 2011. Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, told reporters that the president "simply is not from The Hill Read more »
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Markets: Kingspan, Fyffes, TVC Holdings, Datalex and United Drug issue reports
President Barack Obama talks with, from left, Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, Gene Sperling, National Economic Council Director, and Miguel Rodriguez, Director of Legislative Affairs, in the Oval Office, May 8, 2013. TVC Holdings, the investment firm, ha from FinFacts Read more »
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Dems, GOP revert to child's play over budget impasse
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the White House's Gene Sperling and a couple of others took their turn in the chair opposite Todd. "They all won't -- they're not going to appear together, yet, but by the end -- you watch," Todd joked. from Lowell Sun Online Read more »
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Doors ajar on tax reform
The prospect of a grand bargain isn’t dead yet. Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican, and White House economic adviser Gene Sperling danced around the types of compromises that will be necessary to cobble together bipartisan support for a major deficit-r from The Politico Read more »
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White House, budget chairmen offer bleak outlook
He said Democrats would stage votes shooting down a proposal in the 2014 Obama budget to lower Social Security benefits by chaning the way inflation is calculated. Such a vote on chained CPI would likely succeed, and make compromise more difficult. Key c from The Hill Read more »
