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After his surprise trip to Iraq yesterday where he met with the troops in Anbar Province President Bush flew to Sidney, Australia to attend the APEC summit Today President Bush commended the Senate for confirming Jim Nussle as OMB Director I thank the Senate for its strong bipartisan vote confirming Jim Nussle as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Jim's confirmation comes at a critical time for our Nation's budget as Congress considers this year's annual spending bills. With less than a month until the new fiscal year begins, Congress has not sent any of the twelve appropriations...

White House budget director Rob Portman is stepping down and will be replaced by former Iowa Republican congressman Jim Nussle, senior administration officials said today. The president is scheduled to make the formal announcement at the Roosevelt Room later this afternoon. Administration officials described the decision as motivated by Portman's desire to spend more time with his wife and three teen-aged children. Since returning to Washington as a congressman 14 years ago, Portman has been commuting weekly to his Cincinnati home, and his press secretary said he had tired of that. SNIP Still, the news of Portman's departure seemed to...

Des Moines, January 30th - The battle of taking away Touchplays becomes personal tonight. A man who stands to lose millions says a candidate for governor will now lose his support. Republican Gubernatorial candidate Jim Nussle says he doesn't want to see Iowa become addicted to the money the Iowa Lottery's Touchplay machines bring in. He proposes pulling the plugs on Touchplays even though it'll cost the state 45 million next year. Now, one of Nussle's biggest supporters is pulling his support. Bill Krause is one of the Republican party's biggest activists and biggest donors. He may also have the...

WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Jim Nussle (R-IA) today issued the following statement: "John Kerry's baseless health care attacks don't have much credibility in the eyes of Iowa voters considering Kerry's opposition to the President's bill guaranteeing affordable prescription drugs for Iowa seniors and his vote against $25 billion in rural health care funding. President Bush is working to lower health care costs by creating Association Health Care plans enabling small businesses to pool together and pay less for health insurance, but John Kerry is standing in the way of making quality health care more affordable for all Iowans. Kerry's plan...

WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- A proposal by House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle, R-Iowa, to rein in federal spending has drawn strong backing from the White House. In a statement of administration policy issued Wednesday, the White House said it "strongly supports," Nussle's effort, the Spending Control Act of 2004, which is due for consideration on the House floor later in the week. The bill sets caps on discretionary spending and would establish a pay-as-you-go requirement to restrain the growth in mandatory spending but would not interfere with the ongoing efforts to make the president's tax cuts permanent. "(The...

<p>The chairman of the House Budget Committee has established a Web site where the public can report incidents of waste, fraud and abuse in federal programs.</p> <p>It's a tool, he said, to pressure Congress to keep spending down.</p> <p>Rep. Jim Nussle, Iowa Republican and chairman of the House Budget Committee, has instructed every committee that controls mandatory spending to find at least 1 percent of waste in their budgets by Sept. 2.</p>