Earlier, the deputy secretary outlined some of the financial challenges facing the education department.

BBC: Education Committee

Kimmitt, then the deputy secretary, and Stuart A. Levey, then the under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

As undersecretary, deputy secretary and then secretary of the Treasury, Larry helped guide us through several major international financial crises--and was a central architect of the policies that led to the longest economic expansion in American history, with record surpluses, rising family incomes and more than 20 million new jobs.

FORBES: Text Of Obama's Economic Team Announcement

That's the moniker Time magazine gave the trio of then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers in 1999 as they tried to mop up a bevy of global financial crises.

FORBES: Outlook Hazy

I'm pleased to be joined today by Neal Wolin, the Deputy Treasury Secretary, to discuss the need to get Richard Cordray, our nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, confirmed so the bureau can exercise its full ability to protect consumers.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House