had the privilege to work with closely throughout. omb is an extraordinary institution, and credit to the p professionalism and commitment of ombs people that we have been able to meaningfully improve the office of budget and management over the last year. i want to thank my family, especially my husband steven, and it is their support that allows me to serve. i m humbled, honored and excited by the opportunity to build on the achievements that kathleen, the president and so many others have put in place. if confirmed by the senate, i look forward to carrying on the important work of insuring that children, families and seniors have the building blocks of thelthy and pthel t lives and whether it is the affordable care act or funding childhood act, or funding the
end up saying, that you voted for obama s hhs secretary particularly when the politics of the health care are so explosive in the republican party, and so i think that she is going to be confirmed, and we will have to see what she has to say at the confirmation hearings, but you can bet that a lot of the republican opposition and tough questions from the gop senators r. and mark, we expect the tough questions, but the president noted that in the next confirmation, one has to ask themselves, what has changed here? it is one thing to litigate or try to re-litigate the aspects of the health care law that republicans don t like, but it is another to target the individual and that is the risk they take with this as well, and also, again, the 7.5 million people are not democrats who signed up for the health care law. and that is true. but the still health care remains such an explosive issue on the republican party, and so any person who votes to confirm her would be exposing himself or
friend, and a great partner, and she will be a terrific leader for hhs. so i will turn it over to sylvia. [ applause ] first, i d like to thank you, mr. president and mr. vice president for the trust that you have placed in me in my role at omb, and your confidence for nominating me for the new role. as with we all honor kathleen s accomplishments today, i want to personally thank her for her friendship and support this year. i want to express my heart felt thanks to t thanks for the team at the office of management and budget and the congressional counterparts with whom i have
and you and i both know, mark murray, that knowing that she would resign today, and there was a debate if she was pushed out or if this is a decision that she made? the president indicated that she said way back in march that she would resign. yes, the handwriting was on the wall, and the administration decided to do this once they knew that they had the millions enrolled in the health care can exchanges, and particularly after they were able to announce that 7.5 million americans had enrolled, and tamron what struck me to dday is almost the triumphant tone, and of course, in october and november, there was anything but triumphant for the administration as the website was not working, and they were enduring political problem after political problem, and they can end here in a stronger political footing. they are not out of the woods at all, because was the republicans want to talk more and more about
the health care, but the administration seems to believe that they are now able to officially close the chapter on the botched rollout, and of course, move into the other politics that we know are certainly coming. yes, and to that point, jennifer, mark is pointing out that the republicans are champing at the bit to repeal or in some place replace even though we have not heard the replacement of the health care law, but the reaction from many republicans under whom kathleen said she could not have succeeded. and the president says that the numbers don t lie, and she leaves with 7.5 million people on the rolls, and that is undeniable. absolutely. this is a strong point for the secretary to leave on, and really, it is the best news that obama care has had in several, several months. so if she wants to go tout say, i enrolled 7.1 million, 7.5 million people in health insurance, this is the opportunity to leave.