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03-28-2009, 08:38 PM
Obama names more choices for Treasury posts
– President Barack Obama on Saturday named three choices for senior posts in the U.S. Treasury Department as his administration seeks to fill the ranks of officials to help confront a deep economic downturn. Michael Barr, a Treasury official under former President Bill Clinton, was selected to serve as assistant secretary for financial institutions, and George Madison, a financial industry attorney, was chosen to be general counsel. Helen Elizabeth Garrett, a vice president for academic planning and budget of the University of Southern California, was nominated to be assistant secretary for tax policy. All three nominations must be... snip
Early this month, former Securities and Exchange Commissioner Annette Nazareth withdrew from consideration to become a deputy secretary. Geithner's choice for international affairs undersecretary, Caroline Atkinson, also pulled her name from consideration.
If Barr is confirmed, he will play a significant role in confronting the economic downturn as his post is chiefly responsible for helping to maintain healthy markets.
A former Rhodes Scholar, Barr graduated from Yale University and Yale Law School before spending more than six years in the Clinton administration.
Madison is a former general counsel of TIAA-CREF, a nonprofit financial services company, and was formerly general counsel and corporate secretary at Comerica Inc.Garrett served on former President George W. Bush's nine-member bipartisan Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, which issued its report in November 2005.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090328/pl_nm/us_usa_treasury_staff
– President Barack Obama on Saturday named three choices for senior posts in the U.S. Treasury Department as his administration seeks to fill the ranks of officials to help confront a deep economic downturn. Michael Barr, a Treasury official under former President Bill Clinton, was selected to serve as assistant secretary for financial institutions, and George Madison, a financial industry attorney, was chosen to be general counsel. Helen Elizabeth Garrett, a vice president for academic planning and budget of the University of Southern California, was nominated to be assistant secretary for tax policy. All three nominations must be... snip
Early this month, former Securities and Exchange Commissioner Annette Nazareth withdrew from consideration to become a deputy secretary. Geithner's choice for international affairs undersecretary, Caroline Atkinson, also pulled her name from consideration.
If Barr is confirmed, he will play a significant role in confronting the economic downturn as his post is chiefly responsible for helping to maintain healthy markets.
A former Rhodes Scholar, Barr graduated from Yale University and Yale Law School before spending more than six years in the Clinton administration.
Madison is a former general counsel of TIAA-CREF, a nonprofit financial services company, and was formerly general counsel and corporate secretary at Comerica Inc.Garrett served on former President George W. Bush's nine-member bipartisan Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, which issued its report in November 2005.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090328/pl_nm/us_usa_treasury_staff