The issue figured prominently when US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew visited Beijing a few days later.
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White House budget director Jacob Lew invited the commission to meet with him and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
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Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Secretary of State John Kerry are supposedly scheduled to fly to China this month to meet him.
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Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew planned to raise issues including North Korea's nuclear program, China's exchange rate controls and cyberspying during his two day visit.
Last week, White House budget director Jacob Lew issued spending guidance to federal departments and agencies that could be bad news for military contractors.
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Today, in an event President Obama nominated Jacob Lew -- the current White House chief of staff -- to serve as the next Treasury Secretary.
Baucus (D-MT), Chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, released a copy of the letter that he sent to Acting Commissioner Steven Miller and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew.
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It is far more common for the Senate to bear down on nominees during their confirmation hearings, as was the case for Treasury secretary nominee Jacob Lew, and then proceed to a vote.
The President noted that Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will visit China next week and that Secretary of State John Kerry will also visit Beijing in the coming weeks as part of his upcoming trip to Asia.
Just look at the lavish payouts accorded to Orszag and Treasury Secretary-designate Jacob Lew, who, after serving in the bureaucracy, make millions off the same Wall Street firms that have so benefited from administration policies.
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The announcements that Secretary of State John Kerry, the richest Cabinet member, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will voluntarily reduce their pay came a day after President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said they'd return 5 percent of their paychecks to the Treasury.
Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal are both reporting that President Obama will nominate his chief of staff and Fiscal Cliff point man Jacob (Jack) Lew to replace Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary.
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