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http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5123ZE20090203
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to oversee budget and spending reform, Nancy Killefer, withdrew her nomination on Tuesday because of tax problems, she said in a letter released by the White House.
Killefer is the third high-profile Obama appointee to be plagued by tax-related issues, putting a blot on a transition to power that the Obama administration had hoped would be controversy-free.
Killefer, a director at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and a former assistant Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, had been named to a newly created position working with economic officials to increase efficiencies and eliminate waste in government spending.
"I recognize that your agenda and the duties facing your chief performance officer are urgent," Killefer wrote in the letter to the president, asking for her nomination to be withdrawn.
"I have also come to realize in the current environment that my personal tax issue of D.C. unemployment tax could be used to create exactly the kind of distraction and delay those duties must avoid."
Is ANYONE actually vetting these people?
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to oversee budget and spending reform, Nancy Killefer, withdrew her nomination on Tuesday because of tax problems, she said in a letter released by the White House.
Killefer is the third high-profile Obama appointee to be plagued by tax-related issues, putting a blot on a transition to power that the Obama administration had hoped would be controversy-free.
Killefer, a director at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and a former assistant Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, had been named to a newly created position working with economic officials to increase efficiencies and eliminate waste in government spending.
"I recognize that your agenda and the duties facing your chief performance officer are urgent," Killefer wrote in the letter to the president, asking for her nomination to be withdrawn.
"I have also come to realize in the current environment that my personal tax issue of D.C. unemployment tax could be used to create exactly the kind of distraction and delay those duties must avoid."
Is ANYONE actually vetting these people?
