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Obama names Sperling to top economic post
FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2010, file photo, Gene Sperling, counselor to Treas... WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama appointed Gene Sperling as his director of the National Economic Council Friday, placing a Washington Veteran with a Bipartisan track record in the White House as the administration contends with a divided Congress. Sperling's appointment coincided with the release of the December jobs report that showed the Unemployment Rate dropping to 9.4 percent, its Lowest Level in nearly...

Obama names Sperling to top economic post
(01-07) 09:26 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama appointed Gene Sperling as his director of the National Economic Council Friday, placing a Washington Veteran with a Bipartisan track record in the White House as the administration contends with a divided Congress. Sperling's appointment coincided with the release of the December jobs report that showed the Unemployment Rate dropping to 9.4 percent, its Lowest Level in nearly two years. But job growth fell short of expectations, and ...

Gene Sperling tapped to head National Economic Council
GENE SPERLING TAPPED TO HEAD NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL.... Any minute now, President Obama will introduce Economist Gene Sperling as the new director of the National Economic Council, his second tour in the position after filling the same post from 1996 to 2000. Sperling is currently a senior counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and he'll replace Lawrence Summers, who returned to Harvard last month. It's certainly possible that the Sperling selection will, like the Bill Daley anno...

Obama Names Sperling to Lead Economic Council
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama rounded out his economic team Friday by naming former Clinton Administration adviser Gene Sperling as head of the National Economic Council. Mr. Sperling is currently a senior adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. His skills include navigating through feisty, partisan waters. He helped lead negotiations for the Obama administration during a tough fight over Bush-era Tax Cuts. While Republicans got what they wanted—an extension of tax cuts ...

Obama Unveils New Economic Team
Updated at 7:27 a.m. on January 7. President Obama will unveil a slate of new advisers to an audience at a green Home Improvement company in Landover, Md., later today, bracketing the release of what he hopes will be strong job numbers from December by showing off his retooled Economic Policy team. Most are Veterans of the partisan economic fights of the 1990s. Gene Sperling, 52, will be director of the National Economic Council, reprising a role he played during the boom years of the Clinton a...

Obama names Sperling to top economic post
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama appointed Gene Sperling as his director of the National Economic Council Friday, placing a Washington Veteran with a Bipartisan track record in the White House as the administration contends with a divided Congress. Sperling's appointment coincided with the release of the December jobs report that showed the Unemployment rate dropping to 9.4 percent, its Lowest Level in nearly two years. But job growth fell short of expectations, and Obama said that Sperl...

Gene Sperling named Director of the National Economic Council today
Mr. Sperling, 52, was nominated this morning by President Obama to succeed Lawrence Summers as the Director of the National Economic Council.  Sperling, who has served on the council and has advised Timothy Geithner through the economic downturn has helped the Obama Administration weather the recent economic Recession and provided guidance on maintaining US employment.  Sperling served in the same post in the Clinton White House as well.  While the economic situation differs drast...

Obama to bolster economic team
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- President Obama will announce key members of his economic team Friday as the administration tries to nudge the U.S. economy into a higher gear, a White House official said. Gene Sperling, currently a counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, will be named as the director of National Economic Council, a key policy post that he held during the final years of the Clinton Administration. Email Print Comment Obama will also announce Jason Furman as the principal depu...

Obama to bolster economic team
Gene Sperling is returning to the White House to head the National Economic Council. By CNN Wire and CNNMoney staffJanuary 7, 2011: 8:39 AM ET WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- President Obama will announce key members of his economic team Friday as the administration tries to nudge the U.S. economy into a higher gear, a White House official said. Gene Sperling, currently a counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, will be named as the director of National Economic Council, a key policy post that...

Obama names Sperling to top economic job
Stumble This! US President Barack Obama will on Friday tap expertise polished in the fondly remembered Clinton-era economic boom years with the choice of policy Veteran Gene Sperling for a top White House job. The move will be the latest step in a staff shuffle that has seen Obama refresh his economic and political teams to meet a strong challenge from resurgent Republicans as he prepares to build a 2012 Reelection campaign. Sperling is a Veteran of divided government battles with Republicans d...

Obama names Sperling to top economic job
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (L) confers with Gene Sperling. US P... US President Barack Obama will on Friday name Veteran Clinton-era policy expert Gene Sperling to a top White House economic job, in the latest stage of a staff reshuffle, officials said. The move will be the latest step in a staff shuffle that has seen Obama refresh his economic and political teams to meet a strong challenge from resurgent Republicans as he prepares to build a 2012 Reelection campaign. Sperling is a...

Obama taps Gene Sperling to replace Larry Summers
WASHINGTON - President Obama corralled another top Clinton Administration Veteran Friday, naming Gene Sperling to replace Harvard-bound Larry Summers as head his Council of Economic Advisors. In unveiling the choice, Obama also hailed the jobs report for December that was unveiled this morning. It showed the Unemployment Rate dipped to to 9.4%. "The Economy added more than a hundred thousand jobs last month and the Unemployment Rate fell sharply," Obama said in his Speech, delivered in a nearb...

Sperling to be tapped as economic adviser
President Obama will announce Friday that Gene Sperling will serve as director of the national economic council. Obama will make the announcement during a trip to the Thompson Creek Window Company manufacturer in Maryland, where he will also comment on the December Unemployment report. The report is expected to show The Economy added as many as 170,000 jobs in December. Sperling, whose appointment has been widely anticipated, is a former Clinton Administration official who has been serving a...

Sperling Returns As Obama's Top Economic Adviser
President Obama will name Gene Sperling today to be the permanent replacement for Larry Summers as director of the National Economic Council, White House officials said. The move, which had been widely predicted in recent days, will shift Mr. Sperling from his current role as a counselor at the Treasury Department into a new position as Mr. Obama’s top economic adviser in the West Wing. It will be a return engagement for Mr. Sperling, who served as director of the council under President Clin...

Goolsbee: Economic Policy Will Shift Focus to Growth
Yahoo! Buzz Austan Goolsbee , chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said Friday the administration’s Economic Policy will shift from “rescue and crisis mode” to “recovery and raise the growth rate mode.” Mr. Goolsbee, the only one of President Obama’s senior economic advisors with a Ph.D. in economics, said the administration will still aim to boost Job Creation, even in an environment where the Republican-led House is calling for deep spending c...

Wonkbook: So. Much. News.
Anyone getting a sense of deja vu? Gene Sperling, Clinton's NEC director, will be returned to that position later today. William Daley, Clinton's Commerce Secretary, was named Chief of Staff. Head over to OMB, and Jack Lew, who did the job for Clinton, is doing the job for Obama. At least when it comes to management and Economic Policy, the president's recent personnel decisions have, consciously or not, called back much of the team Clinton had in place once he found his rhythm in dealing with t...

Gene Sperling: Obamas new economic whisperer
WASHINGTON (AP) — He has helped write popular television dramas and has stroked many a sweet drop shot on the Tennis court. He has written a book about education in Developing Countries. And now, for the second time in his career, Gene Sperling, never formally educated as an Economist, will rise to one of the top economic posts in the U.S. government. Affable and slightly rumpled, Sperling at age 52 is the Obama White House’s new Renaissance man. In his return engagement as head of t...

Obama names Sperling to top economic job
US President Barack Obama will on Friday tap expertise polished in the fondly remembered Clinton-era economic boom years with the choice of policy Veteran Gene Sperling for a top White House job. The move will be the latest step in a staff shuffle that has seen Obama refresh his economic and political teams to meet a strong challenge from resurgent Republicans as he prepares to build a 2012 Reelection campaign. Sperling is a Veteran of divided government battles with Republicans during then-pres...

Obama names Sperling to top economic job
US President Barack Obama will on Friday name Veteran Clinton-era policy expert Gene Sperling to a top White House economic job, in the latest stage of a staff reshuffle, officials said. The move will be the latest step in a staff shuffle that has seen Obama refresh his economic and political teams to meet a strong challenge from resurgent Republicans as he prepares to build a 2012 Reelection campaign. Sperling is a Veteran of divided government battles with Republicans during then-president Bil...

Gene Sperling: Obama's new economic whisperer
President Barack Obama announces Gene Sperling, left, as the new director of the National Economic Council, while speaking about The Economy at Thompson Creek Manufacturing, which makes custom replacement windows, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, in Landover, Md. He has helped write popular television dramas and has stroked many a sweet drop shot on the Tennis court. He has written a book about education in Developing Countries. And now, for the second time in his career, Gene Sperling, never formally edu...

Sperling to head National Economic Council
Source: MSNBC Sperling, who was the head of the council under former President Clinton, would replace Larry Summers. Sperling is currently counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. The president will make the announcement tomorrow during his visit to Thompson Creek Manufacturing in Landover, MD, a window manufacturer. While there, the president will also tour the facility and comment on the monthly employment report. Read more: https://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/06/5779327... ...

Matt Miller on Assistant to the President and NEC Director Gene Sperling
Matt Miller emails: My secret, definitive (and unpublished) profile of Gene Sperling! In the summer and fall of 1999, while a senior editor at The New Republic, I worked on a profile of Gene Sperling, then the chairman of the National Economic Council, a position to which President Obama is appointing him again. I'd known, worked with and closely observed Gene during my stint as a senior adviser at the Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1995, though we were not personally close. I t...

Obama to visit manufacturing plant
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- President Obama visits a Manufacturing plant in Landover, Md., Friday, touring the facility and making personnel announcements, the White House said. Obama also will remark on the latest national monthly employment report, the daily agenda indicated. It is widely expected that Obama will name Gene Sperling, a counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, as the director of the National Economic Council. Sperling, who held the post during President Bill Clinton's a...

I Love the Smell of Corporatocracy in the Morning
...The president has been reaching out directly to U.S. companies, meeting with 20 chief executives last month to ask for ideas on policies that would inspire them to invest and hire. And on Feb. 7, Mr. Obama will cross Lafayette Park from the White House to the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, his longtime political nemesis, to discuss working together on Job Creation. "The administration took some positive steps recently, striking a Bipartisan agreement to extend current Tax Rates...

Obama touts unemployment rate; lowest in 19 months
President Obama touted the lowest Unemployment Rate in 19 months during a visit to a Maryland window manufacturer, where he also announced changes to his economic team. The jobless rate fell to 9.4 percent in December as a strong holiday shopping season helped boost hiring among Retailers and the Manufacturing, health care and hospitality sectors added jobs. But the report was mixed. Overall, The Economy created a lower-than-expected 103,000 jobs during the month, and it's unclear whether the dr...