Obama to delay next year's budget proposal by week

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Washington Post

HONOLULU -- President Barack Obama will push back the release of his budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 by about a week, a delay administration officials blame in part on a hold placed on Obama's nominee for budget director.

Obama had planned to release the budget Feb. 7, but an administration official said Obama now plans to put out his proposal early the following week.

The official, who insisted on anonymity in order to speak about internal administration decisions, said the six-week delay in confirming new budget director Jacob Lew was a central factor in the decision to delay the budget. Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu put a hold on Lew's nomination in protest of the administration's moratorium on offshore oil drilling.

The delay is also the result of Congress working so late in the year on funding decisions for 2011, the official said.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/28/AR2010122802436.html

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2. effing Landrieu