Jacob Lew, a State Department official who served as director of the White House office of Management and Budget during the Clinton administration, will be asked to reprise that role in the Obama administration, replacing Peter Orszag.
Lew’s post requires Senate confirmation, but he was easily confirmed for his State Department position, and confirmed by a Republican Senate in 1998. So it’s hard to see the GOP putting up much of a fight.
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