As I noted in my budget post, this is just as well – employment growth is expected to be pretty weak for at least another couple of years.
Ms. Burwell would take over for Jacob J. Lew, now the Treasury secretary, who left the budget post in early 2012 to become the White House chief of staff.
Mr. Bolten would replace Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., who stepped down from the budget post last month to explore a run for governor of Indiana.
He won the Democrats' top budget post in 1996, after an unsuccessful earlier effort, then played a crucial role in negotiating the 1997 balanced-budget deal between President Bill Clinton and Congressional Republicans.
After working as a bank examiner, he was named to a state budget post in the early 1970s by Gov. Dan Walker, who ultimately went to prison after being convicted of bank fraud, perjury and misapplication of funds.
In the Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013, we understand that it can seem strange that, at a time when many Member States are making cuts in their own budgets, we are demanding more money for the EU budget post 2013.
Instead of making accusations, inquire about how your parents are budgeting post retirement.
She was a one-woman show, operating out of her bedroom on a shoestring budget, posting grainy, homemade videos on YouTube.
In its traditional budget post-mortem examination, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said there had been a £7bn deterioration in the state's coffers since Alistair Darling's pre-budget report five months ago.
That situation began last summer, when the Pentagon, the American authorities in Baghdad and Mr. Bolten's Office of Management and Budget began pulling together what would amount to Iraq's first budget post-Saddam Hussein.
