Obama Taps Three Nominees for Treasury Posts

[Frank Booth]

Source: Wall Street Journal

President Barack Obama Saturday named three more nominees for positions at the U.S. Treasury: Helen Elizabeth Garrett, assistant secretary for tax policy; Michael S. Barr, assistant secretary for financial institutions; and George W. Madison, general counsel. All are subject to Senate confirmation.

Ms. Garrett is vice president for academic planning and budget at the University of Southern California and was a member of President George W. Bush's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, which issued its report in November 2005. She also serves as chair of the finance committee of the national governing board of Common Cause.

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[Norrin Radd]

1. The press needs to stop using "taps" in headlines.

It has a different connotation, now.

[Frank Booth]

2. Good point. Or, maybe this is bigger news than I thought . . .

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. Anyone know anything about these Nominees?

[Pachamama]

4. Yes! Michael Barr is an old friend!

His sister Lisa was one of my best friends and we all went to the same school growing up....I always liked the smart guys and he was someone who was top of the class, very intelligent and ended up going to Yale, Oxford and Yale law and was a Rhodes Scholar I believe.

Don't know if he has changed over the years, but I can say that he was always a very good guy when we were growing up. :hi: