Office of Management and Budget - Obama Presidency Oral History Office of Management and Budget Index / Organizations Transcript Aneesh Chopra ...protection officer. That role became an OMB [Office of Management and Budget... ...officer. That role became an OMB [ Office of Management and Budget ] department, effectively. In othe... ...to the president. It was a report to OMB . And, for political history, the vic... Bob Kocher ...that Peter Orszag went on to be the OMB [Office of Management and Budget... ...Peter Orszag went on to be the OMB [ Office of Management and Budget ] director. Zeke Emanuel, at that time... ...Institute of Health], but went into the OMB with Peter Orszag, and Larry Summer... Carol Browner ...who was about to be the head of OMB [Office of Management and Budget]. H... ...who was about to be the head of OMB [ Office of Management and Budget ]. He had a much more memorabl... Heather Zichal ...about something that dealt with the Office of Management and Budget [OMB], you just had to walk down th... ...the Office of Management and Budget [ OMB ], you just had to walk down th... Nancy Nielsen ...Orszag, who was the director of the Office of Management and Budget for President Obama, said th... Neera Tanden ...from Treasury, and there was a whole OMB [Office of Management and Budget... ...Treasury, and there was a whole OMB [ Office of Management and Budget ] contingent; Zeke Emanuel and others... ...from the White House, staff from HHS, OMB , Treasury, and the NEC. That was ... ...call people. I knew people, from the OMB director to the PAD [program associat... ...from Treasury, and there was a whole OMB [Office of Management and Budget... ...Treasury, and there was a whole OMB [ Office of Management and Budget ] contingent; Zeke Emanuel and others... ...from the White House, staff from HHS, OMB , Treasury, and the NEC. That was ... ...call people. I knew people, from the OMB director to the PAD [program associat... Show more... Peter Orszag ...Orszag served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget in the [Barack H.] Obama [II... ...to ask you to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget ? At the time, I was serving as th... ...NAC [National Advisory Committee] or OMB . Finally settled on OMB. And I thin... ...Committee] or OMB. Finally settled on OMB . And I think this story, I'll jus... ...A.] Klain, the incoming chief of staff, OMB staff; lots of people did a lot of wor... ...Act—I've read that your staff at OMB was tasked with finding tax reforms t... ...audience was the administration and OMB trying to reach by introducing th... ...and open government, which instructed OMB to issue recommendations for an ope... ...government? That was really more— OMB , people forget, is the Office o... ...really more—OMB, people forget, is the Office of Management and Budget , so that was more on the managemen... Show more... Richard Trumka ...have any say in Commerce, Treasury, OMB [Office of Management and Budget], an... ...any say in Commerce, Treasury, OMB [ Office of Management and Budget ], and all the other places that thei... ...with them over regulations because the OMB , they had a process that ever... ...that every regulation had to go to the OMB , and they had 180 days to get it out... ...He came in and overturned it. Because OMB had bottled everything up, we didn'... Steven Chu ...Ford Motor Company, for $6 billion. The OMB [Office of Management and Budget... ...Company, for $6 billion. The OMB [ Office of Management and Budget ] decides on what the loan insuranc... ...W.] Bush era, was the first in line. OMB had put that risk at something lik... Sylvia Burwell ...administration. She was director of the Office of Management and Budget [OMB] from 2013 to 2014. And she has ... ...the Office of Management and Budget [ OMB ] from 2013 to 2014. And she has ... ...to zero in the role of director of Office of Management and Budget . Following that role, she led th... ...government. Especially when you're at OMB and you're asking the departments—th... ...tell the departments, “We at OMB need these questions answered,” becaus... ...you, “Am I—how do I think about—?” At OMB , it was always one of the hardes... ...things that I always said is, actually, OMB is, I think, harder than a business... ...Now that we're talking about Office of Management and Budget , I do want to ask you to reflect o... ...administration, by the time I get to OMB , we're starting to see the fruition o... ...to see the fruition. So, when I'm at OMB , I get to be a part of working o... ...not the opportunity when I came back to OMB . One of the things—and I'm not sur... ...of the role of working from an OMB perspective. Because the one thing th... ...So that working relationship between OMB , and the administration, and th... ...the differences when I came in, I start OMB —my first official day, after I'... ...approached about taking the job at OMB , and if it also included a though... ...Sylvia, I want to talk to you about OMB .” That was not the conversation wit... ...not a “What would you do if you were OMB director to get us out of this?... ...we didn't talk about the specifics of OMB , or any of those things. So I left no... ...if I had been interviewed for a job for OMB . I didn't know. I did not know. Wha... ...wasn't as much a learning curve with OMB . I knew a bunch of the people tha... ...to talk about in terms of the budget, Office of Management and Budget , or that year that you had a... ...even though obviously the B function of OMB was red hot. And similarly, when I ge... ...so important to us to understand the Office of Management and Budget , and the negotiations you successfull... ...health of HHS, or when I was at OMB , how are we going to do that? So, I'... ...do that? So, I'm thinking of the M in OMB . I'm thinking of the speech you gav... ...ways. One of them started when I was at OMB . When I was at OMB, we create... ...when I was at OMB. When I was at OMB , we created something called th... ...administration. She was director of the Office of Management and Budget [OMB] from 2013 to 2014. And she has ... ...the Office of Management and Budget [ OMB ] from 2013 to 2014. And she has ... ...to zero in the role of director of Office of Management and Budget . Following that role, she led th... ...government. Especially when you're at OMB and you're asking the departments—th... ...tell the departments, “We at OMB need these questions answered,” becaus... ...you, “Am I—how do I think about—?” At OMB , it was always one of the hardes... ...things that I always said is, actually, OMB is, I think, harder than a business... ...Now that we're talking about Office of Management and Budget , I do want to ask you to reflect o... ...administration, by the time I get to OMB , we're starting to see the fruition o... ...to see the fruition. So, when I'm at OMB , I get to be a part of working o... ...not the opportunity when I came back to OMB . One of the things—and I'm not sur... ...of the role of working from an OMB perspective. Because the one thing th... ...So that working relationship between OMB , and the administration, and th... ...the differences when I came in, I start OMB —my first official day, after I'... ...approached about taking the job at OMB , and if it also included a though... ...Sylvia, I want to talk to you about OMB .” That was not the conversation wit... ...not a “What would you do if you were OMB director to get us out of this?... ...we didn't talk about the specifics of OMB , or any of those things. So I left no... ...if I had been interviewed for a job for OMB . I didn't know. I did not know. Wha... ...wasn't as much a learning curve with OMB . I knew a bunch of the people tha... ...to talk about in terms of the budget, Office of Management and Budget , or that year that you had a... ...even though obviously the B function of OMB was red hot. And similarly, when I ge... ...so important to us to understand the Office of Management and Budget , and the negotiations you successfull... ...health of HHS, or when I was at OMB , how are we going to do that? So, I'... ...do that? So, I'm thinking of the M in OMB . I'm thinking of the speech you gav... ...ways. One of them started when I was at OMB . When I was at OMB, we create... ...when I was at OMB. When I was at OMB , we created something called th... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Healthcare Healthcare The Peoples' House Coming soon Transition Coming soon Inherited Wars Coming soon