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KLMNO THE FED PAGE Will Jack Lew be second time lucky? RONALD REAGAN LIBRARY
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RON SACHS/POOL Jack Lew, steward of surpluses for Bill Clinton, is President Obama’s nominee for dean of the deficit.
have held the same senior agency position in two administrations. And the history of second acts, in politics as in other endeavors, doesn’t necessarily augur well. It’s true, in the film world, that despite a break of 12 years, Ar- nold Schwarzenegger did pretty well in “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.” But critics noted the evident passage of time when Harrison Ford reprised his role as Indiana Jones 19 years after starring in what probably should have been “The Last Crusade.” In the sports world, boxers of-
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ten try to return to the ring — usually with very bad results. Mi- chael Jordan’s tenure with the Washington Wizards was disas- trous, largely because it was in a very different time and with a very different set of teammates — kinda like what Lew, who left the OMB in 2001 with the federal budget running huge surpluses, is going to find.
A fair number of people have
held different Cabinet jobs in dif- ferent administrations. Norman Y. Mineta was secretary of com-
f confirmed for a second tour as director of the Office of Management and Budg- et, Jack Lew will join a very small group of officials who
AL KAMEN In the Loop
merce in Bill Clinton’s adminis- tration and ran the Transporta- tion Department for George W. Bush. George Shultz was, among other things, secretary of the Treasury in Richard Nixon’s administration and secretary of state under Ronald Reagan. But an informal survey of vet-
erans of recent administrations unearthed — after much head- scratching — only one other per- son in the past 30-some years, Donald Rumsfeld, who held pre- cisely the same Senate-confirmed job in two different administra- tions. He was secretary of de- fense in the Gerald Ford admin- istration and came back to that job for Bush II. Some folks might say the return engagement didn’t work out all that well, what with that Iraq thing and all. A somewhat larger group of Washington hands have held
senior White House jobs in dif- ferent administrations. For example, James A. Baker III was White House chief of staff in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush White Houses. (He was also Rea- gan’s Treasury secretary and Bush I’s secretary of state.) The second act as Bush White House chief of staff was maybe not quite as smooth as the first. Lloyd Cutler was Carter’s White House counsel and re- turned as Clinton’s. Fred Field- ing was Reagan’s White House counsel and returned as Bush II’s — and that Easter Bunny outfit he had to wear at the annual White House egg roll was a lot stinkier than it had been. Nick Calio was White House
legislative director for both Bushes. David Gergen was com- munications director for Ford and Reagan and, in effect, held the same job for Clinton. As Reagan Chief of Staff Ken- neth Duberstein observed: “In Washington, you can have a sec- ond act — but you don’t get a do- over.”
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ment for him at the State Depart- ment. Since President Obama moved to rip him away from his job as one of Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton’s two deputies — over her intense objections — the sense we’re getting is that she gets her pick of most anyone she wants. (Okay, maybe not our old colleague Sidney Blumenthal, but just about anyone else.) Given that assumption, the early speculation was that Clin- ton would tap Wendy Sherman, former director of Emily’s List and assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs and later counselor to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She was a foreign policy adviser to Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign. She works at the Al- bright Group. Sherman’s clearly the favorite for the job, but we seem to recall this was the same position she turned down when it was offered to her the first time around, after the election. She is said to have preferred to be the No. 1 deputy — the job now held by Jim Stein- berg — which is more policy- intensive. Or she would have ac- cepted deputy national security adviser. But that was then. Now the
more management-oriented job might be something of a steppingstone. Steinberg is said to be most unhappy these days and the chatter is that he and the secretary are not especially close, so the betting is he’ll move on in the not-too-distant future. At that point, Sherman would be positioned for a policy portfolio. Sherman is considered very
smart and an extremely hard worker, though some say she can be abrasive. Still, she’s probably one of the few people in Hillary- land who haven’t gotten a Foggy Bottom job yet.
Loos of the lookie variety Speaking of foreign policy, the
U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Paki- stan, perhaps the most critical post around these days, is being overwhelmed — not by insur- gents but by congressional del- egations, Hill staffers and top ad- ministration officials, so much so that it’s having trouble getting its real job done. The State Department inspec-
tor general found that nearly 700 such visitors came by in search of facts in 2009, wanting embassy briefings and chats with Paki- stani leaders, the Federal Times reported. The embassy folks con-
. . . George W. Bush — oh, and also as the Easter Bunny.
ducted at least 100 meetings to prepare for the delegations, which tied up 300 embassy- owned vehicles during a total of 175 days in Pakistan. “Large numbers of high-level visits are a fact of life when U.S. national interests are as deeply engaged,” the IG said. But many of the same embassy officials “who are expected to meet Wash- ington’s voracious reporting and outreach requirements find that substantial parts of their time must be devoted to visits,” com- pounding an already “crushing workload” of improving rela- tions, finding out what’s going on, fighting terrorism and so on. That’s why we’ve always rec- ommended that codels go to Ita- ly, France or Denmark to find those elusive facts.
A departure The White House announced
Thursday that Deputy Secretary of Commerce Dennis Hightower has resigned, apparently because of ill health, to return to the pri- vate sector.
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Obama’s nominee reimburses $3,100; pay was GPO ‘error’
by Ed O’Keefe
certain paper and electricity re- duction goals.
Boarman informed GPO of the improper “goal sharing” payment in June and repaid the funds, ac- cording to officials.
GPO informed Boarman on
Thursday of the other improper payments. The agency did say, however,
that he was owed $572.85 from the 2007 payments for 19 hours of leave. “Although these overpayments were caused entirely by adminis- trative errors made by GPO and not by anything you did, by law and regulation we are required to seek reimbursement for these overpayments,” the agency told him. In a reply sent Tuesday, Boar- man said, “When I received these payments I had no reason to be- lieve they were in error. I un- derstood these were payments for leave I had accumulated dur- ing the period I worked at GPO in a pay status.” Boarman “did absolutely noth- ing wrong,” White House spokes- man Reid Cherlin said.
“GPO made these errors of their own accord, as they stated clearly in their letter of July 8,” Cherlin said in an e-mail. “This episode makes it clear that GPO is sorely in need of stronger fi- nancial management, and that’s one of the reasons we’re looking forward to Mr. Boarman’s confir- mation and service.” The Senate Rules Committee plans to vote on Boarman’s nomi- nation Tuesday, a spokesman said. Boarman apologized to sen- ators during his May 25 confir- mation hearing for not disclosing a $250 contribution in March to the campaign of Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, who unsuccess- fully challenged Sen. Blanche Lincoln in a Democratic Senate
primary. Boarman denied to law- makers that he was involved in bundling efforts for the cam- paign.
ed.okeefe@washingtonpost.com
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Dustin Law helped clean First Avenue in Nashville after torrential storms in May.
House backs update of flood insurance
The House has voted to over- haul the debt-ridden federal pro- gram that provides flood insur- ance to more than 5 million homeowners and businesses in flood-prone areas. For more than four decades,
the National Flood Insurance Program, an arm of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has offered affordable flood in- surance to more than 20,000 communities that participate in efforts to reduce flood damage. But Congress has not updated the program since 1994, and it has been saddled with billions in losses as a result of Hurricane Ka- trina and population growth in areas at risk of flooding. The bill takes such steps as per-
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mitting an increase in premiums, deductibles and coverage, and phasing out subsidies for vaca- tion homes and for people living in areas repeatedly hit by floods. It now goes to the Senate. — Associated Press
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