The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a Cabinet-level office, and is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). The current OMB chairman is Peter Orszag and was appointed by President Barack Obama on the 15th December 2008 and confirmed by the Senate on the 20th January 2009.
The Bureau of the Budget, OMB's predecessor, was established as a part of the Department of the Treasury by the Budge...
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a Cabinet-level office, and is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). The current OMB chairman is Peter Orszag and was appointed by President Barack Obama on the 15th December 2008 and confirmed by the Senate on the 20th January 2009.
The Bureau of the Budget, OMB's predecessor, was established as a part of the Department of the Treasury by the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. The Bureau of the Budget was moved to the EOP in 1939, and reorganized into OMB in 1970 during the Nixon administration. The first OMB included Roy Ash (head), Paul O'Neill (assistant director), Fred Malek (deputy director) and Frank Zarb (associate director) and two dozen others. In the 1990s, OMB was reorganized to remove the distinction between management staff and budgetary staff by combining those dual roles into each given program examiner within the Resource Management Offices .
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