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President Barack Obama and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter R. Orszag discuss the federal budget in the Oval Office Monday, Jan. 26, 2009, during the President's first week in office.
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Key economic staff members confer during a budget session in the White House Roosevelt Room on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. From left, Gene Sperling, advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury, confers with Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner talks with Lawrence Summers, head of the National Economic Council.
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A briefing paper is noted during a budget meeting Jan. 29, 2009 with the President, Vice President and key economic and administration staff in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
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President Barack Obama makes his point to Lawrence Summers, left, head of the National Economic Council, and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, seated next to Summers, during a Saturday budget meeting in the White House Roosevelt Room in the President's first week in office. Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff, is seated to the President's left.
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President Barack Obama considers the choices to be made during a Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, budget meeting in the White House Roosevelt Room, across the hall from the Oval Office in the White House West Wing.
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President Barack Obama, foreground, listens as Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner makes a point during the Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, budget meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. At left is Phil Schiliro, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs.
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President Barack Obama reflects on the data presented during a meeting on the budget Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, both seated, listen to Phil Schiliro, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, right, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, during a meeting in a conference room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (next door to the White House West Wing) before entering the closing session of the Fiscal Responsibility Summit. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, left and Christina Romer, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, center, are among the participants.
