"Right now neither side has 218 votes," said Commerce Secretary William Daley, who is coordinating administration efforts to win passage.
Stephen Friedman, who recently took over as head of the White House National Economic Council, which is responsible for coordinating administration economic policy, was a board member of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan political group that pleads constantly for balancing the budget and has long infuriated the Bush administration.
Although the scope of Ms. Browner's job at the White House is still under discussion, aides said that if appointed she would coordinate administration policy across departmental lines and advocate for Mr. Obama's energy and environmental policies on Capitol Hill.
Founded in 2007, Conformity's SaaS product offerings provide a way for businesses to manage users, coordinate administration and enforce policy that helps them implement cloud computing solutions more efficiently.
Though he was unable to play the coordinating role that was so vital to the running of government, he still insisted that he was autocrat, maintaining ultimate power in his hands and preventing capable ministers from coordinating the administration of the government and war effort.
To coordinate government action, the Bush administration created a Policy Coordinating Committee, bringing together officials from Treasury, State, Justice, the National Security Council, the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. Two interagency groups, the Foreign Terrorist Asset Tracking Center and Operation Green Quest, were created to identify sources of cash for terrorists.
By the end of 1973, Mr. Simon was coordinating the administration's efforts to encourage conservation and to allocate scarce supplies of oil -- favoring factory production and home heating oil over gasoline for motorists.
President Bush has appointed James R. Wilkinson, who served as the spokesman for Gen. Tommy R. Franks during the war in Iraq, as a new deputy national security adviser for communications, with primary responsibility for coordinating the administration's public messages about the Iraqi occupation, the White House said Tuesday.
That meshes with an Obama administration effort, announced yesterday, to coordinate government action to reach exascale capabilities.
In 1852 he gave Gotha a new constitution, which in part coordinated the administration of his two duchies.
"That is the larger threat," said Diane Vande Hei, executive director of the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, who helped coordinate Clinton administration efforts to safeguard water against terrorism.
