Ms. Nancy Killefer

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  Nancy Killefer withdrew from consideration to be the federal government's chief performance officer , a new position , because of her past failure to pay unemployment taxes for household help at her Washington, D.C., home.
  
  "I recognize that your agenda and the duties facing your chief performance officer are urgent," Killefer wrote Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama.
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  Killefer has been a senior director at McKinsey & Co. and worked in the Treasury Department during the Clinton administration.

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  By asking chief performance officer nominee Nancy Killefer to double as Office of Management and Budget deputy director for management, President-elect Barack Obama tied her to an agency that has struggled to the point of cliché to "put the M in OMB."
  
  But most observers said Obama made the right decision, noting that the arrangement will bring a new level of authority to OMB's management shop.
  
  In September, when Obama first committed to establishing a CPO, he said the performance czar would operate a management SWAT team out of the White House.
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  While the president-elect has not clarified whether Killefer would operate solely out of OMB if confirmed, her deputy director position seems to suggest that is the case.
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  In establishing these basic principles, Killefer will have to avoid the temptation to scrap existing performance programs that work or just pile on additional policies, said Adam Hughes, director of federal fiscal policy at the oversight group OMB Watch.
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  But the chief performance officer title will give Killefer a direct line to the president and, likely, additional funding, they said.
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  With a long list of obstacles and challenges ahead, Killefer has at least one very important thing going for her -- a mandate from the incoming president.
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  However, the point that Ms.Killefer has a balancing act in her duel role as Deputy Director of the OMB and the CPO is a political spin move by the new Administration…and a good one at that.
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  The fact that Ms.Killefer now reports directly to the President is probably as valuable as the other thousand of appointees that "report directly to the President". In my opinion, the real lost opportunity here was that the new Administration did not ask Senator McCain and the Comptroller General of the U.S. to be a partner with Ms. Killefer and be side-by-side with the President when he made the public announcement of the new performance czar.

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  Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday.

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  Nancy Killefer. She withdrew Feb. 3 for the post to be the government's first chief performance officer after it became known that she had failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help.

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  But just like Tom Daschle, Timothy Geithner and Nancy Killefer - nominees all for top-level jobs in the Obama administration - we are expected to pay our taxes on time and in full.
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  The same day, Killefer dropped her bid to become the nation's first "chief performance officer" in the wake of a dispute over $900 in unpaid unemployment taxes for her household help.

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  The White House announced that Daschle had asked to be removed from consideration as health and human services secretary and that that Nancy Killefer had made the same request concerning what was to be her groundbreaking appointment as a chief performance officer to make the entire government run better.
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  Killefer, an executive with consulting giant McKinsey & Co., had been chosen by Obama to serve in two roles: as the first chief performance officer in a White House and as a deputy director at the Office of Management and Budget.
  
  When Obama announced Killefer to much fanfare in early January, The Associated Press reported that the District of Columbia government had filed a ,946.69 tax lien on her home in 2005 for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help. She resolved the tax error five months after the lien was filed. Since then, administration officials had refused to say whether her tax problems extended beyond that one issue.
  
  The withdrawals by Daschle and Killefer are just two on a list of nomination troubles.

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  In this Jan. 7, 2009 file photo, Then-President-elect Barack Obama looks on as Nancy Killefer at his transition office in Washington. Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, an Obama administration official said Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File) | More
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  WASHINGTON — Vassar College grad Nancy Killefer said she is withdrawing her candidacy for chief performance officer because she doesn't want her tax issue to become a "distraction."
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  Killefer failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help. She was the second major Obama administration nominee to withdraw and the third to have tax problems complicate their nomination after Obama announced their selection.
  
  Killefer served in the Clinton administration as the Treasury Department's chief operating officer.
  
  Since 1979, she has been a senior director in the Washington office of the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
  
  She also served on the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board from 2000-05, and was board chairman from 2002-04.
  
  Killefer graduated from Vassar in 1975 with departmental honors in economics, and received the college's Ruth Gillette Hutchinson Prize for the best thesis on economic history. She also served on the editorial board of the Miscellany News, the college's student-run newspaper, and worked for a local legal services firm.
  
  Killefer earned a master's degree in business administration from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  
  Dacchle, on tap for the Health and Human Services Secretary slot said he "would have not been able to operate "with the full faith of Congress and the American people."
  
  He is faced with problems over back taxes and potential conflicts of interest.
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  His stunning statement came less than three hours after Killefer said she didn't want her bungling of payroll taxes on her household help to be a distraction.
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  In this Jan. 7, 2009 file photo, Then-President-elect Barack Obama looks on as Nancy Killefer at his transition office in Washington. Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, an Obama administration official said Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2008. In this Jan. 7, 2009 file photo, Then-President-elect Barack Obama looks on as Nancy Killefer at his transition office in Washington. Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, an Obama administration official said Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2008. ((AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File))

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  WASHINGTON - Today, President-elect Barack Obama named Nancy Killefer as Chief Performance Officer.
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  Nancy Killefer, Chief Performance Officer; Nominee for Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
  
  Killefer is currently a Senior Director in McKinsey & Company's Washington, D.C. office, where she is the leader of McKinsey's Public Sector Practice. Killefer served as Assistant Secretary for Management, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer at the United States Department of the Treasury from 1997 to 2000. In addition to overall management responsibilities for the Treasury's fourteen bureaus and 160,000 staff members, she led a major modernization at the Internal Revenue Service and reshaped Treasury management processes. After returning to McKinsey in 2000, she joined the IRS Oversight Board, a public-private entity akin to a corporate board that oversees its IRS. She served there from 2000 to 2005 and was its Chairperson from 2002 to 2004. Killefer currently sits on the boards of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Partnership for Public Service, and Vital Voices, a non-governmental organization that empowers female leaders and entrepreneurs around the world. Prior to joining McKinsey, Killefer worked as an associate at Charles River Associates, a microeconomics consulting firm. She holds an honors degree in economics from Vassar College and an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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  As the first Chief Performance Officer, working with Peter Orszag and Rob Nabors at the Office of Management and Budget, Nancy Killefer is uniquely qualified to lead that effort.
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  Nancy is an expert in streamlining processes and wringing out inefficiencies so that taxpayers and consumers get more for their money. And during her time at Treasury, she helped bring the Department into the twenty-first century, modernizing the IRS and preparing systems for Y2K.
  
  But Nancy also understands that at the end of the day, government services are delivered by people. That's why she's always worked tirelessly to empower employees to take matters into their own hands: to rethink outmoded ways of doing things, to embrace new systems and technologies, and to take initiative in developing better practices.
  
  When Nancy was offered her first position at Treasury, she responded, "If you're willing to embrace significant change, then you're looking at the right person. But if you just want to keep the trains running on time, don't ask me to do this job."
  
  When I heard that, I knew I'd chosen exactly the right person for the challenges we face. And I will be instructing members of my cabinet and key members of their staffs to meet with Nancy soon after we take office - and on a regular basis thereafter - to discuss how they can run their agencies with greater efficiency, transparency and accountability.
  
  I will also see to it that we apply these principles of budget reform to the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. This plan will call for dramatic investments to revive our flagging economy; save or create three million new jobs, mostly in the private sector; and lay a solid foundation for future growth. In order to make these investments that we need, we'll have to cut the spending that we don't - and I'll be relying on Nancy to help guide that process.
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  Nancy Killefer delivers a short statement after President-elect Barack Obama announced her as his choice of "chief performance officer" during a news conference at the transition headquarters Jan. 7, 2009, in Washington, D.C.
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  Nancy Killefer delivers a short statement after President-elect Barack Obama announced her as his choice of "chief performance officer" during a news conference at the transition headquarters Jan. 7, 2009, in Washington, D.C.
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  Nancy Killefer, who was tapped last month to be chief performance officer in the Obama administration, withdrew her candidacy today over tax issues.
  
  "I recognize that your agenda and the duties facing your Chief Performance Officer are urgent," Killefer wrote in a letter to President Obama that was released by the White House.
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  An executive with consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Killefer would have been the first chief performance officer in the nation's history, tasked with maintaining fiscal discipline and responsibility and overseeing budget and spending reform.
  
  She was also nominated last month to serve as Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget.
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  Officials have not answered questions about Killefer's tax problems since they surfaced last month.
  
  Killefer is the third Obama nominee to face questions over taxes, following now-confirmed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle.

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  Nancy Killefer was nominated to be chief performance officer Killefer's tax issues dealt with household help, senior administration official says
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  WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nancy Killefer withdrew her nomination Tuesday to become the Obama administration's chief performance officer, citing unspecified problems with District of Columbia unemployment tax.
  
  Nancy Killefer appears with then President-elect Obama at a news conference in early January.
  
  Nancy Killefer appears with then President-elect Obama at a news conference in early January.
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  But in a letter to President Barack Obama, Killefer said her tax issue "could be used to create exactly the kind of distraction and delay those duties must avoid."
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  Killefer was nominated to be deputy director of management at the Office of Management and Budget, and her duties as chief performance officer were added on. The OMB portion required her to be confirmed by the Senate.
  
  Killefer is the third Obama nominee to face tax troubles, after questions about Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for health and human services secretary, who also withdrew Tuesday.
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  A senior administration official told CNN that Killefer's tax issues dealt with household help, and that Obama aides had expected her to be raked over the coals after the Geithner and Daschle nominations. The official said that Killefer had been upfront about the matter and that Obama's staff had reviewed the questions raised and decided they were comfortable with her before the announcement of her nomination.
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  Killefer, a senior director at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, was nominated last month as Obama pledged to cut unnecessary spending and bring "a new sense of responsibility to Washington.
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  Killefer served as assistant secretary for management and chief financial officer of the Treasury Department during the Clinton administration.

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