Senate panel approves Geithner for treasury post

金牛银熊

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Finance Committee has cleared the nomination of Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary despite unhappiness over his mistakes in paying his taxes. The committee approved the nomination on an 18-5 vote, sending it to the full Senate. President Barack Obama is hoping for quick approval so that the point man for the administration's economic rescue effort can begin work. The committee vote came a day after Geithner appeared before the panel to apologize for what he called "careless mistakes" in failing to pay $34,000 in taxes earlier in the decade, when he worked at the International Monetary Fund. Geithner paid the back taxes plus interest for the years 2003 and 2004 after being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. But he did not pay taxes he owed for 2001 and 2002, even though he had made the same mistakes for those years, until shortly before he was nominated by Obama last November to be treasury secretary. The nomination was expected to win approval by the full Senate, with many lawmakers saying that given the serious economic crisis facing the country, the new president deserved to have the services of a man of Geithner's abilities and experience. Geithner has been the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for the past six years and was a key participant in decisions made by the Bush administration to deal with the worst financial crisis to hit the country since the Great Depression. All five of the "no" votes on the committee came from Republicans, including the top GOP member of the panel, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. Those voting no said that they did not believe Geithner had been candid in his answers on why he failed to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes. They said they viewed this as a serious error for an official who would head the agency that oversees the IRS. "I am disappointed that we are even voting on this," said Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo. "In previous years, nominees who made less serious errors in their taxes than this nominee have been forced to withdraw." Even Democrats who voted for the nomination said they were disappointed in Geithner's actions. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said that in normal times he would oppose Geithner but "these are not normal times." The committee acted on an expedited basis, voting shortly after Geithner submitted to the panel 102 pages of answers to written questions committee members had posed after Wednesday's hearing. [ 本帖最后由 金牛银熊 于 2009-1-22 12:16 编辑 ]

金牛银熊

:(121): :(121): :(121):

金牛银熊

全是江洋大盗，现在摇身一变，立地成佛了！

dividend_growth

如果不是Geithner，那谁现在适合财政部的这个位置？老熊的最佳人选是谁呢？

无非牛熊猪

这是个小人。

金牛银熊

原帖由 dividend_growth 于 2009-1-22 12:24 发表 如果不是Geithner，那谁现在适合财政部的这个位置？老熊的最佳人选是谁呢？

这个时候只能是个ＦＥＤ和华尔街的局外人才能担此重任！！！

金牛银熊

全世界都在看着新总统依靠什么人和如何解决经济金融问题了，闹不好美利坚就有大麻烦了。 世界也就麻烦了！ 其实也没有什么大不了的！ 犹太人能跑，中国人更能跑！！！

金牛银熊

那美国就是拉美国家了，真正的拉美化了！！！

bigbadwolf

hbw

他轻易就过关了，说明很有来头。个人问题点到为止。

bigbadwolf

Timothy F. Geithner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 9th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Born August 18, 1961 (1961-08-18) (age 47) Spouse Carole M. Sonnenfeld Children Elise, Benjamin Alma mater Johns Hopkins University (M.A.) Dartmouth College (A.B.) Timothy Franz Geithner (pronounced GITE-ner) (born August 18, 1961) is the 9th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In that role he also serves as Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Geithner is President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed Henry Paulson as United States Secretary of the Treasury. Contents [hide] 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and education [edit] Early life and education Geithner was born in New York. His father, Peter F. Geithner, is the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York. During the early 1980s, Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by Ann Dunham-Soetoro, mother of President Barack Obama, and they met in person at least once.[2] Timothy Geithner's mother, Deborah Moore Geithner, is a pianist and piano teacher in Larchmont, New York where his parents currently reside. Geithner's maternal grandfather, Charles F. Moore, was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as a vice president of Ford Motor Company.[3] Geithner spent most of his childhood living outside the United States, including present-day Zimbabwe, India and Thailand, where he completed high school at International School Bangkok.[4] He then attended Dartmouth College, graduating with a A.B. in government and Asian studies in 1983.[5] He earned an M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 1985.[5][6] He has studied Chinese[5] and Japanese.[7] [ 本帖最后由 bigbadwolf 于 2009-1-22 14:45 编辑 ]

背人

这是老熊今天的结束语吧。

gear