Press Briefing by OMB Director Jack Lew and CEA Chairman Austan Goolsbee on the Budget, Feb. 14, 2011

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2011 – 12:31 P.M. EST

MR. BAER:  Hey, everybody.  Thanks for coming.  I’m Ken Baer from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, will go over the economic assumptions and take some questions, and then Jack will come up and he’ll say a few remarks about the budget and then take your Q&A.

So, Austan.

MR. GOOLSBEE:  Thanks, Ken.  I’m Austan Goolsbee.…