One would expect that a Democratic nominee for a cabinet-level position might face resistance from Senate Republicans. After all, that's how partisan politics works in this country. But today, Jack Lew, President Obama's nominee for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, faced opposition from not one, but two liberal senators, while at the same time earning unanimous support from Republican senators.

Yesterday, Jack Lew, President Obama's nominee to replace Peter Orszag as Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, went to Capitol Hill for two nomination hearings. Both the Senate Budget Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) have jurisdiction over the nomination, necessitating the two hearings on Lew, who was also President Clinton's last OMB director. Too bad we learned little about the nominee during either hearing.

Tomorrow at 9 AM, the Senate Budget Committee will be holding a hearing on Jack Lew, President Obama's nominee for Director of Office of Management and Budget, a position which has been open since Peter Orszag stepped down in late July. I'm expecting most of the questions posed to Lew will revolve around debt/deficit issues, since, during his time as President Clinton's last OMB director, he was the last director to oversee a budget surplus.

It wasn't three weeks ago that Earl Devaney, head of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency (RAT) Board, told Congress that conducting oversight of Recovery Act funds was unnecessarily burdensome due to the lack of a standardized coding system for government contracts, and now the procurement regulating arm of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed a solution.