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It looks like President Bush won’t have his new director of the White House Office of Management and Budget confirmed before Congress breaks for its recess. The confirmation of former U.S. representative and Iowa gubernatorial candidate Jim Nussle, a Republican, for that job appeared to be moving right along, cruising through the Senate Budget Committee, [...]

Former Iowa GOP Rep. Jim Nussle faced two positive Senate panels last week considering his nomination to be director of the Office of Management and Budget.  However successful the hearings were, the vote on his nomination is still in jeopardy because of Senate negotiations with the White House over three critical fiscal year 2008 appropriations [...]

This is just too funny to pass up. The Hill's pseudo-blog, "Under the Dome," reports (in the third story down) that Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is lobbying on behalf of former Iowa congressman and failed gubernatorial candidate Jim Nussle in his struggling bid to become White House budget director. Grassley said he considers Nussle as [...]

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad announced that former Rep. Jim Nussle’s confirmation hearing on his nomination to be the next director of the Office of Management and Budget would be held next Thursday, July 26.

“This hearing will provide Mr. Nussle with an opportunity to address Members of the Budget Committee and answer questions about [...]

Should former Iowa gubernatorial candidate and U.S. Rep. Jim Nussle be confirmed as President Bush’s director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, he would be the first Iowan to serve in the presidential cabinet in more than 60 years. While Nussle’s appointment has received some support among Iowa’s political leaders, not everyone [...]

This morning it hit the news that Rob Portman is stepping down as White House Budget Director.  Now it appears that his replacement will be Iowa Republican Jim Nussle, who represented Iowa's 1st Congressional District and, from 2001 to 2006, served as chair of the House Budget Committee.  He left the House to run against [...]

Will Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani actually compete in the
Iowa GOP’s Straw Poll?  Over the past couple of days, speculation has
emerged over whether or not the former New York City mayor will actually compete
in the Iowa GOP’s Straw Poll in August, or even compete in the state at all.

Yesterday, Mike Glover of the Associated Press [...]