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							<title>How Congress Could Make the Iran Deal Work</title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sen. Bob Corker and Secretary of State John Kerry are both right about the Iran nuclear deal. We were &ldquo;fleeced,&rdquo; as Corker claims. And outright rejection by Congress, as Kerry asserts, would damage U.S. interests.
Statements by Kerry and his fellow Obama administration cabinet officials, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, highlight the innovations, concessions, and weaknesses of the &ldquo;deal&rdquo; that emerged from two years of talks with the Iranians, who are descendants of the earliest chess players.
The deal deeply divides arms control and national security analysts, including the authors of this essay&mdash;often, unfortunately, along party...]]></description>
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							<title>Ernest Moniz: Obama&#039;s MVP on Selling Iran Deal</title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<media:title>311547</media:title><description><![CDATA[Ernest Moniz, nuclear physicist and former MIT professor heading the Department of Energy, landed a role above his typical job description in February when he became a key negotiator of the historic nuclear agreement with Iran.
Now, the White House has dispatched Moniz a little closer to home: he&rsquo;s been spending his days on Capitol Hill, using his scientific expertise to press lawmakers to support the agreement he played a crucial role in negotiating. &nbsp;
Moniz has held classified briefings with the full Senate and full House and with House Democrats, plus two public hearings and individual and small-group meetings with lawmakers eager to pepper the energy secretary with questions...]]></description>
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							<title>Tempers Flare on Day 1 of Iran Hearings</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<media:title>310659</media:title><description><![CDATA[The first public opportunity for lawmakers to question administration officials on the Iran deal came Thursday with a Senate committee hearing that provided a detailed and often heated debate over whether the historic agreement is the best path forward to preventing a nuclear Iran, and whether Congress may or may not halt it in its tracks.
Secretary of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, the key negotiators of the agreement, appeared alongside Treasury Secretary Jack Lew for more than four hours of questioning from the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In the end, it was unclear whether any senators were swayed one way or the other by the testimony, and the...]]></description>
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							<title>First Aaron Burr, Now Jack Lew</title>
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							<author><![CDATA[Richard Brookhiser, Wall Street Journal]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<media:title>176611</media:title><description><![CDATA[The first report was that the Treasury Department was planning to take Alexander Hamilton off the $10 bill, replaced by an as-yet-unnamed woman. Later stories suggested that his image won&rsquo;t entirely disappear from the bill when the change is made in 2020. Either way, the man who made our money is losing his place on it.]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew: "We Have A Lot Of Work To Do" On The Economy</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<media:title>235941</media:title><description><![CDATA[JACK LEW, SECRETARY OF TREASURY: We're doing our part. We made tough decisions six years ago, and we stuck with them. We have our economy growing. We reformed our financial system. We have our fiscal house in a much better place.

And we have growth that by world standards doing very well. As you know, by our standards we still have a lot of work to do. As long as there are millions of Americans who want to work full-time or want to find jobs and can't, we're not done with our work. But when you look at the world, the U.S. is a strong driver of growth.]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew: U.S. Economy Has "Tail Winds" This Year</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>225297</media:title><description><![CDATA[TOM KEENE, BLOOMBERG NEWS: Davos greets a global economy somewhat struggling, some questions about China growth, emerging market political and economic tensions.  I believe the locomotive is your United States of America.  How are we doing?   

JACK LEW, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY: You know, I think the U.S. economy is doing much better.  We ended the year strong.  We started the year strong.  I think as opposed to last year, when we had real headwinds from budget cuts and other fiscal policies, we this year have tailwinds, with kind of good fundamental economic core growth in a broad range of areas.   You know, the challenge we have is to make sure we can keep that going and that we...]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew Refuses To Discuss Number Of Obamacare Enrollees</title>
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							<author><![CDATA[Fox News Sunday <img src="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/images/icon_video9.gif" />]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<media:title>210301</media:title><description><![CDATA[CHRIS WALLACE: I want to ask you about ObamaCare. You brought it up, that's what -- what a lot of this is about. The public exchanges in ObamaCare opened this week. And I think it's fair to say that the government Web site was a mess. In fact -- and you can look at it right here -- the page to sign up to enroll for ObamaCare has been taken down for repairs during off-peak hours this weekend.

A question, sir. You have had three years to prepare for this week.

If I already had doubts -- somebody already had doubts about the government's ability to oversee a sixth of the economy, shouldn't this just add to my doubts?

JACK LEW, SECRETARY OF TREASURY: You know, Chris, the -- I actually...]]></description>
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							<title>Lew: "We're Not Going To Negotiate Over The Debt Limit"</title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<media:title>204316</media:title><description><![CDATA["The President has made it clear: we're not going to negotiate over the debt limit," Lew told CNBC in an interview.]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew: "Congress Needs To Do Its Work" And Pass A Debt Limit</title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<media:title>199974</media:title><description><![CDATA[WALLACE: Let's switch to the debt limit.

House Speaker Boehner said no increase in the debt limit without an equal or a greater amount in spending cuts. When, first of all, are we going to hit the deadline? I know you are shifting money around.

And secondly, short of a Republican surrender, are you going to make a deal to how do you avoid going into default?

LEW: Chris, to be clear, we hit the debt limit in May. We have been using what are called extraordinary measures. Since then, to pay our bills --

WALLACE: And when do you hit the deadline.

LEW: Congress needs to do its work. It has to stop looking for what's the last possible moment. No one can predict with absolute...]]></description>
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							<title>As Lew Visits Beijing, Let&#039;s Get Real With China</title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<media:title>178271</media:title><description><![CDATA[You only get one chance to make a first impression. So as newly minted Treasury Secretary Jack Lew visits Beijing this week, he should adopt a far more aggressive approach than his predecessor, Tim Geithner. It could change America&rsquo;s relationship with China for the better.
For the past four years, China has walked all over us in the economic arena. The U.S. trade deficit with China last year was the largest between any two nations in the recorded history of the world, and it continues to rise thanks to Beijing&rsquo;s profiteering approach to trade. On those occasions when we manage to chop down one trade barrier, China erects another. And when we begin to complain about China&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew&#039;s First Big Mistake</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2013/03/17/jack-lews-first-big-mistake/]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[Gordon Chang, Forbes]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<media:title>180679</media:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Lew will be making his first foreign trip as Treasury secretary this week as he heads to Beijing for meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday.&nbsp;Lew&rsquo;s visit comes on the heels of Friday&rsquo;s installation of Li Keqiang as China&rsquo;s premier and Thursday&rsquo;s confirmation of Xi Jinping as president, the last formal steps in the transition of China&rsquo;s &ldquo;Fourth Generation&rdquo; leaders to its Fifth. &nbsp;As a &ldquo;senior U.S. official&rdquo; told Reuters last week, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s important to deepen our relationship with China&rsquo;s new leadership team at this time.&rdquo;]]></description>
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							<title>Treasury Needs a Better Long Game</title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later, the Federal Reserve will want to raise interest rates. Maybe next year. Maybe when unemployment declines below 6.5%. Maybe when inflation creeps up to 3%. But it will happen.
Sooner or later, the Federal Reserve will want to raise interest rates. Maybe next year. Maybe when unemployment declines below 6.5%. Maybe when inflation creeps up to 3%. But it will happen.
Can the Fed tighten without shedding much of the record $3 trillion of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities on its balance sheet, and soaking up $2 trillion of excess reserves? Yes. The Fed can easily raise short-term interest rates by changing the rate it pays banks on reserves and the discount rate at...]]></description>
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							<title>The Ongoing and Hugely Risky Bailout of the Housing Market</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After a long and wrenching plunge, the housing sector has finally bottomed out and seems to be recovering. According to the latest S&amp;P/Case-Shiller index, home prices rose in nearly every metropolitan area during 2012 and turned in a solid gain of 7 percent nationally. Celebration would be premature, however. The human cost of the housing crash has been fearful. Trillions of dollars of household wealth have evaporated, 5 million people have lost their homes, and 22 percent of the remaining homeowners still have mortgages exceeding the value of their properties. With housing prices still 30 percent below their (admittedly unrealistic) 2006 peak, it will take average homeowners many years...]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew&#039;s Convenient Memory Hole</title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>178376</media:title><description><![CDATA[Surely the Senate was right to confirm the president&rsquo;s chief of staff as his new Treasury secretary. Indeed, we can&rsquo;t think of a man who is better suited to succeed Tim Geithner &mdash; or more in keeping with the pattern of Obama nominees.Yes, the dear boy did come across as frightfully forgetful when members of the Senate Finance Committee asked him about, say, the $1.4 million loan he received from New York University when he was an executive there.Seems that the man who will soon be overseeing dollar accounts in the billions and trillions couldn&rsquo;t recall what interest rate he was charged.]]></description>
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							<title>Why Did Democrats Give Jack Lew a Pass?</title>
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							<author><![CDATA[Alec MacGillis, New Republic]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>178442</media:title><description><![CDATA[While Washington was obsessing Wednesday over whether or not the oh-so-intimidating Gene Sperling had threatened Bob Woodward over his deeply misguided take on the budget sequester, another veteran Democratic number-cruncher skated by: The Senate confirmed Jack Lew to be secretary of the Treasury, by a vote of 71 to 26.The result was hardly surprising. Republicans have had their differences with Lew over the past couple of years (as President Obama's budget director and then chief of staff, he has been at the forefront of the incessant fiscal fight), but they made clear in recent weeks that they were going to devote most of their energies of resistance to Obama's pick for the Pentagon,...]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew and Citigroup: How the Corrupt Rich Get Richer with Cronyism</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;re an amoral person with political connections, it&rsquo;s possible to make a lot of money.
Warren Buffett lined his pockets by making a government-subsidized investment in Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis.
The rest of us suffered and he got richer, but the left seems to be okay with that perverse form of redistribution because he supports class-warfare tax hikes. Sort of like buying an indulgence in the Middle Ages.
Hey, nice work if you can get it.
But Buffett may be an amateur compared to the crony capitalists at Citigroup.
The just-confirmed Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was given a huge bonus for leaving Citigroup several years ago. Did the company give Lew a bonus...]]></description>
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							<title>Why Jack Lew Is a Disaster for Our Country</title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following remarks from the Senate floor on February 27, 2013:
During my remarks today I have exhaustively documented the case against the confirmation of Mr. Lew. I have detailed his disastrous budget plans, rebuked by editorial boards across the country and unanimously rejected by Congress.
I have discussed his repeated, knowing, and deliberately false statements about those budget plans&mdash;most notoriously his claim that &ldquo;Our budget will get us, over the next several years, to the point where we can look the American people in the eye and say we&rsquo;re not adding to the debt anymore;...]]></description>
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							<title>Lew Overcomes Damaging Revelations</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/02/28/jack-lew-confirmed-as-treasury-secretary/]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[DSWright, Firedoglake]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Despite a slew of damaging revelations Jack Lew has been confirmed by the Senate. With a 71-26 vote Lew received more Republican support than Chuck Hagel. On some level Lew&#8217;s easy confirmation is a testament to how much influence Wall Street has in Washington but it still is interesting to compare the two nominations and their confirmation fights when you look at the actual evidence.Hagel was briefly under suspicion of taking money from compromising groups &#8211; Lew has taken money directly from people he will regulate as Treasury Secretary. As Treasury Secretary Lew will be in charge of the IRS &#8211; Lew avoided paying his taxes by using offshore tax havens. In the event of...]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew, an Object Lesson in Plutocracy</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/02/jack-lew-an-object-lesson-in-plutocracy.php]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[Paul Mirengoff, Power Line]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>177757</media:title><description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal focuses attention on two questions regarding Jack Lew and the paychecks he received from private employers before returning to government. First, why did New York University pay severance to Lew in 2006 when he left there voluntarily to work at Citigroup? In my experience, employers don&rsquo;t pay folks to quit their job. Severance pay is what you get when you are, in effect, sacked.Second, why did the terms of Lew&rsquo;s original employment contract with Citigroup include a bonus guarantee if he left the bank for a &ldquo;high level position with the United States government or regulatory body?&rdquo;&nbsp;]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew&#039;s Deal Explained</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/jack-lews-deal-explained]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[Kevin Drum, Mother Jones]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew &amp; The Art of the Score</title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Some guys have it, and some don&rsquo;t. I&rsquo;m referring to that special quality that makes powerful institutions want to throw fistfuls of dollars at them in senseless acts of high-priced beneficence.
Jack Lew has it like nobody&rsquo;s business. You might think the bespectacled treasury-secretary nominee is just another brainy budget wonk and miss the animal magnetism that makes his employers lose all sense of financial proportion around him, paying him astronomical sums, forgiving his loans, and granting him generous golden parachutes.
Yes, Jack Lew is a rare talent &mdash; at the art of getting paid.
He left the Clinton administration, where he served as director of the Office of...]]></description>
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							<title>Lew Got Unusual Bonus for Exiting NYU</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/nyregion/lew-treasury-nominee-got-exit-bonus-from-nyu.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0&gwh=EF1B620C6F529172B37A150C5D1244C1]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[Danny Hakim, New York Times]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>176611</media:title><description><![CDATA[President Obama&rsquo;s nominee to lead the Treasury Department, Jacob J. Lew, got a $685,000 severance payment when he left a top post at New York University in 2006 to take a job at Citigroup.&nbsp;The payment, which a university official acknowledged on Monday, is considered unusual by outside experts in benefits and raises questions about why a tax-exempt university would give a large exit bonus to an executive who was departing voluntarily.&nbsp;]]></description>
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							<title>Citi&#039;s Odd Payment to Jack Lew</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/02/citis-odd-bonus-payment-jack-lew]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[Kevin Drum, Mother Jones]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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							<title>Lew&#039;s Citi Contract Proof of Wall Street - Washington Corruption</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323384604578324442830547044.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[WSJ]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>177463</media:title><description><![CDATA[Americans can sleep soundly knowing that Max Baucus (D., Mont.) isn't in charge of interviewing captured al Qaeda fighters. But the enhanced non-interrogation techniques that the Senate Finance Chairman has been applying to Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew still deserve more attention. This weekend's technique was painful to watch"&rdquo;if you're a taxpayer.After Mr. Lew repeatedly responded "I do not recall" to key questions about his actions while working at New York University and Citigroup, Mr. Baucus announced Sunday that Mr. Lew had answered the committee's questions "in a thorough and fully transparent manner." Therefore, the committee will vote Tuesday on the nomination.&nbsp;]]></description>
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							<title>Forrest Gump at Treasury</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323949404578314412568158962.html]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>176991</media:title><description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats are in a hurry to confirm Jack Lew as Secretary of the Treasury before anyone notices his biography. Otherwise, liberal lawmakers might be embarrassed voting for a man who represents everything they've been campaigning against.Investor in Cayman Islands tax haven? Check. Recipient of a bonus and corporate jet rides underwritten by taxpayers at a bailed-out bank? Check. Executive at a university that accepted student-loan "kickbacks" for steering kids toward a favored bank? Check. Excessive compensation with minimal disclosure? Check.Enlarge ImageJacob "Jack" Lew, U.S. treasury secretary nomineeLike a financial Forrest Gump, Mr. Lew keeps walking into the frame of the...]]></description>
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							<title>Exposing Jack Lew&#039;s Citigroup Cronyism</title>
							<link><![CDATA[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/02/22/exposing_jack_lew039s_citigroup_cronyism_302565.html]]></link>
							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-21/citigroup-s-man-goes-to-the-treasury-department.html?alcmpid=view]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>177463</media:title><description><![CDATA[Jack Lew is the nominee for Treasury secretary whose own bonus as an investment banker was bailed out by the Treasury Department when it rescued Citigroup Inc. (C) in 2008. He owes much to America's taxpayers. He should also be grateful to Citigroup for agreeing to let him rejoin the government without suffering much for it financially.An intriguing revelation from Lew's Senate confirmation hearing last week was that he stood to be paid handsomely by Citigroup if he left the company for a top U.S. government job, under his 2006 employment agreement with the bank. The wording of the pay provisions made it seem, at least to me, as if Citigroup might have agreed to pay Lew some sort of a...]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew &amp; Obama&#039;s Finance-Friendly Status Quo</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/19/jack-lew-and-the-obama-administration-s-finance-friendly-status-quo.html]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[Lloyd Green, Dly Beast]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>176991</media:title><description><![CDATA[Last year, the Obama campaign waged an all-out assault on Mitt Romney for his offshore investments"&rdquo;a "guy with a Swiss bank account," with "millions in the Cayman Islands, who refused to release his tax returns," as Joe Biden put it.&nbsp;That was then. Now the Obama administration expects Jack Lew to be confirmed as Treasury secretary"&rdquo;despite his having invested $56,000 in a Cayman Islands"&ldquo;based private equity fund during the career political operative's lucrative dip into the private sector.&nbsp;]]></description>
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							<title>Five Reasons to Stop Jack Lew</title>
							<link><![CDATA[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/02/15/five_reasons_to_stop_jack_lew_302088.html]]></link>
							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://www.humanevents.com/2013/02/14/what-about-lew/]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[David Harsanyi, Human Events]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>176611</media:title><description><![CDATA[It's difficult to understand why Jack Lew, the White House Chief of Staff and President Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury Secretary, is having an easier time navigating the nomination process than Chuck Hagel or John Brennan -- or any nominee in recent memory, actually. But this seems to be the case.Yes, Lew faced some questions from the Senate Finance Committee this week on array of economic troubles -- some of which, incidentally, he had a hand in creating "&ldquo; but there were few surprises and most expect the two-time director of the Office of Management and Budget to be confirmed. That's a big problem. Other than Jeff Sessions, who wrote a Dear Colleague letter this week laying out...]]></description>
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							<title>Lew: "I Didn't Know" Fund I Invested In Was Based in Cayman Islands</title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>176271</media:title><description><![CDATA[Sen. Max Baucus asks Jack Lew, the president's nominee for Treasury secretary, about his investment in a venture capital fund that was based in the Cayman Islands.

BAUCUS: Why was the investment in the Cayman Islands?

LEW: Senator, I actually don't know why it was organized. I was not involved in setting up the fund.

BAUCUS: Did you know at the time?

LEW: At the time I invested, I was aware that it was an international fund investing in emerging markets. I knew that much of the personnel for the fund was based in London. I actually didn't know at the time what the address of the partnership was.]]></description>
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							<title>Sessions Puts Lew on Trial for Budget Bluff</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/13/sessions-puts-lew-on-trial-for-budget-bluff/]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[Chris Stirewalt, FOX News]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>176276</media:title><description><![CDATA["It's an accurate statement that our current spending will not be increasing the debt" We've stopped spending money that we don't have."-- Jack Lew, then director of the Office of Management and Budget, in Feb. 16, 2011 testimony before the Senate Budget Committee.How does a budget blueprint that would add $13 trillion to the federal debt not add money to the national debt?&nbsp;]]></description>
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							<title>What Is Jack Lew Doing as Nominee to Run the Treasury?</title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>173686</media:title><description><![CDATA[No matter how Jack Lew performs at his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, his nomination to be Treasury Secretary has already produced one big winner: the Cayman Islands. The Caribbean low-tax haven is getting a political rehabilitation thanks to Mr. Lew's participation in a Cayman-based fund he invested in while working at Citigroup from 2006-2008.For years Democrats have denounced the Caymans, which has no corporate income tax, as a refuge for tax cheats. In 2012 President Obama ripped Mitt Romney for investments based there. But now an Obama spokesman suggests that Mr. Lew's Caymans investment, a Citigroup fund he chose to invest in, was a model of transparency and says that "Jack...]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew&#039;s Lie</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/02/13/jack-lews-lie-and-obama-not-one-dime-debt/]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[Jonathan Tobin, Commentary]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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							<title>Obama&#039;s Hypocrisy on Jack Lew</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-hypocrisy-on-jack-lew-and-his-cayman-investment/2013/02/11/4382c754-73e9-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.html]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[Marc Thiessen, Washington Post]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>171795</media:title><description><![CDATA[In a brutal campaign ad last year, Barack Obama showed Mitt Romney warbling &ldquo;America the Beautiful&rdquo; while pictures of a sandy beach appeared and the ad declared: &ldquo;He had millions in a Swiss bank account .&thinsp;.&thinsp;. tax havens like Bermuda &hellip; and the Cayman Islands.&rdquo; It concluded: &ldquo;Mitt Romney&rsquo;s not the solution. He&rsquo;s the problem.&rdquo;Well, apparently someone else is part of the &ldquo;problem&rdquo;: Obama&rsquo;s nominee for Treasury secretary, Jack Lew.]]></description>
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							<title>Cayman Investments A Problem for Lew</title>
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							<originalLink><![CDATA[http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/02/11/cayman-islands-investment-becomes-obstacle-for-tres-sec-nominee/]]></originalLink>
							<author><![CDATA[DSWright, Firedoglake]]></author>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Nominee Jack LewJack Lew&#8217;s nomination for Treasury Secretary was already proving to be contentious but now questions are being raised on Lew&#8217;s personal financial activities. Lew reportedly made an offshore investment in the Cayman Islands that may have been an attempt to avoid taxes.Treasury secretary nominee Jack Lew will face questions at his confirmation hearing next week about an investment fund registered in a Cayman Islands building that has been called a notorious site for tax haven abuse.Lew invested $56,000 in the fund, which was run by his former employer Citigroup, and sold his investment in 2010 for $54,418, according to the Senate Finance...]]></description>
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							<title>Carney Grilled About Jack Lew's Time At Taxpayer Bailed Out Citigroup</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>173798</media:title><description><![CDATA[REPORTER: Thanks, Jay.  The New York Times raises the point that not much is known about Jack Lew's time at Citigroup, and raises the point that some members of Congress have concerns.  Senator Grassley said he intends to ask Lew about a reported bonus that he got from Citigroup before the bank got government assistance.  What can you tell us about that?  And what do you say to those who have concerns that Lew may have been too cozy with Wall Street?

JAY CARNEY:  Well, I mean, first of all, Jack Lew's extensive record of service is well known.  He has spent most of his career serving the American people in Congress, as Budget Director twice -- once for President Clinton, once for...]]></description>
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							<title>Obama Announces Denis McDonough as Chief of Staff</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[East Room
12:13 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the announcement of one of the worst kept secrets in Washington. (Laughter.)
As President, I rely on an extraordinary team of men and women here at the White House every single day. And I rely on my Chief of Staff to keep up with them -- and our entire government -- making sure that we're all moving in the same direction, making sure that my priorities are being carried out and that our policies are consistent with the commitments that I've made to the American people, and that we're delivering progress to the American people.
As I said earlier this month, I could not be more grateful to Jack Lew for his...]]></description>
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							<title>Jack Lew Is Unqualified for Treasury</title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The worst part of the Jack Lew nomination for treasury secretary is not simply that he has no qualifications, standing or experience in the financial world or international sphere (think G20 and European debt crisis). Nor is it simply that he doesn't have any seasoned currency opinions (under Obama, the greenback has dropped 10 percent, while gold has doubled).
Yes, these are big disqualifiers. But the real problem is that Lew is a left-liberal Obama spear-carrier, whose very appointment signals a sharp confrontation with the Republican House over key issues such as the debt ceiling, the spending sequester, next year's budgets and taxes.
From all the way back when Lew was staff advisor to...]]></description>
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							<title>Interview with White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew</title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description><![CDATA[CROWLEY: Joining me now is White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew. Thank you for joining us this morning. Let's talk about health care a bit because I wanted to show you a opinion poll taken by USA Today/Gallup after the decision, and this is the opinion of the Supreme Court's ruling that the individual mandate, in fact, most of the entire law is constitutional, 46 percent of Americans agree with that and 46 percent of Americans disagree with that.
Why does health care law remain so divisive at this point?
LEW: Candy, I think that one of the great things about this country is we have a Supreme Court and when it rules, we have a final judgment. So there is not a question now as to whether or...]]></description>
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							<title>Lew: ObamaCare Isn't A Tax, Is A "Penalty" So You Pay Your "Fair Share"</title>
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							<media:title>144864</media:title><description><![CDATA[Chris Wallace, "FOX News Sunday" host: "This is a tax increase on the middle class of $27 billion over the next ten years."

Jack Lew, White House Chief of Staff: "No, what this is is this is a law that says if you can afford insurance and you choose not to buy it and you choose to have your health costs be a burden to others, you'll pay a penalty so that you'll pay our fair share. That's what this law says. 

"For the 99% of people who buy insurance or who get it through the tax cuts that are in this Act, they're not going to be affected. You keep your insurance, you don't pay any kind of penalty. 

"For the very few people who decide to be free riders and not have insurance, but...]]></description>
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							<title>Obama Chief Of Staff Blames GOP Congress For No Budget</title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<media:title>124100</media:title><description><![CDATA[White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew tells "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory that Republicans in Congress should be blamed for the fact that a budget has not been passed in over 1,000 days.

"Congress didn't do a great job last year," Lew told Gregory. "I actually think it's unfair to blame the United States Senate for that. A lot of that was because of the extreme conservative approach taken by House Republicans."

Democrats had commanding majorities in the House and Senate for the first two years of President Obama's administration. A transcript of the exchange is below.

President Obama's budget last year was rejected by both parties in the Senate by a vote of 97-0.

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							<title>Interview with OMB Director Jack Lew</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[JESSICA YELLIN: It is time to get real about the new Obama budget blueprint and the failure by either party to make the toughest choices to cut spending. The White House brags that its new 2012 budget would shrink deficits every year over the next ten years reducing them in total by $1.1 trillion. OK. But under the president's plan, the federal government would still spend hundreds of billions of dollars more than it takes in every year over that ten-year period, and the country would sink trillions of dollars deeper into the red.
So, we keep piling on to the total amount we owe to other countries. That's over $14 trillion on the national debt clock right now. Well, here's why the...]]></description>
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							<title>Obama&#039;s Remarks on the Budget</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Parkville Middle School and Center for TechnologyBaltimore, Maryland
10:25 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, good morning, everybody.  I am here at Parkville Middle School and Center of Technology outside of Baltimore with Secretary Arne Duncan and Budget Director Jack Lew.  And I just came to Parkville on a day where we are unveiling our budget, and I'm doing so for a reason.  But before I do that I just want to thank Principal Buddy Parker, who is showing us around, as well as Susan Yoder, the eighth grade science teacher who we just visited with in her classroom.
Over the last few weeks I've traveled the country, talking about what we need to do to win the future; talked about the need to...]]></description>
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							<title>Can Obama Make Sense of Government?</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- A cynic might be justified in seeing a call for a sweeping reorganization of the federal government as the last refuge of a politician who doesn't want to ruffle any ideological feathers.
For example, President Obama could have used last week's State of the Union address to propose a ban on those high-capacity gun magazines that made the recent Tucson tragedy so lethal. But doing this would have brought down the wrath of the National Rifle Association. So, sadly, he took a pass.
The president's aides were quick to say he would address the gun issue soon, explaining that Obama didn't want a hot-button issue to divert attention from his theme of "winning the future."
So giving...]]></description>
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							<title>Obama Announces Jack Lew to Be OMB Director</title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description><![CDATA[12:18 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon.  Before I begin, I just want to note a breakthrough that we've had on our efforts to pass the most comprehensive reform of Wall Street since the Great Depression.  Three Republican senators have put politics and partisanship aside to support this reform, and I'm grateful for their decision, as well as all the Democrats who've worked so hard to make this reform a reality -- particularly Chairman Dodd and Chairman Barney Frank.
What members of both parties realize is that we can't allow a financial crisis like this one that we just went through to happen again.  This reform will prevent that from happening.  It will prevent a financial crisis...]]></description>
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							<title>Clinton&#039;s Speech on Foreign Affairs Day</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dean Acheson AuditoriumWashington, DC
SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Director General Harry Thomas. I appreciate your leadership and words today. And it's always a pleasure to be with so many members of the State Department family. We're joined by career ambassadors, retired officers returning to State after decades of distinguished service, young diplomats and civil servants just beginning their careers, and all of you who care deeply about our country and who have served it, are serving it, and know what a difference that can make.
I want to thank Jack Lew and Bill Burns. It is a pleasure working with both of them. And I am delighted that we are...]]></description>
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