Ms. Nancy Killefer

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  His decision came as another prominent Obama nominee, Nancy Killefer, withdrew her nomination to be chief performance officer because of similar -- and smaller -- tax lapses.
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  Gibbs struggled to explain why Daschle and Killefer withdrew their nominations but not Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, who had failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes as well but was eventually confirmed by the Senate.
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  Killefer, in a two-paragraph letter, indicated that controversy over failure to pay taxes by Daschle and Geithner had persuaded her to decline the new president's request to join his administration.
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  Killefer had a tax lien placed on her house by the D.C. government in 2005 because she had not paid unemployment taxes for her household help. She resolved the problem five months after the lien was filed, but the Associated Press wrote about it shortly after Killefer was nominated in early January.
  
  "I recognize that your agenda and the duties facing your Chief Performance Officer are urgent," Killefer wrote in a letter to Obama, which was released by the White House this morning. "I have also come to realize in the current environment that my personal tax issue of D.C. Unemployment tax could be used to create exactly the kind of distraction and delay those duties must avoid. Because of this I must reluctantly ask you to withdraw my name from consideration."
  
  Obama nominated Killefer to be deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and to take on a new White House post, chief performance officer for the entire federal government. Both positions require Senate confirmation. Obama had said Killefer would work on "identifying where there are areas that we can make big change that lasts beyond the economic recovery plan and save taxpayer money over the long term."
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  Killefer is a senior director at McKinsey & Co., an international management consulting firm with private- and public-sector clients. From 1997 to 2000, she served as assistant secretary for management and chief financial officer and chief operating officer at the Treasury Department.
  
  At McKinsey -- where she worked before joining Treasury, and after her stint there -- she has consulted with the retail, hotel and pharmaceutical industries on management, marketing and efficiency issues. Killefer also chaired the IRS Oversight Board from 2001 to 2005 and has served on the board of the Partnership for Public Service since 2006. She has drawn wide praise from colleagues.
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  The District government alleged that after Killefer left Treasury, she failed to pay unemployment compensation tax for a household employee. After 18 months, a lien for $946.69 was placed on her home in the Wesley Heights neighborhood of Northwest Washington -- including $298 in unpaid taxes, $48.69 in interest and $600 in penalties.

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  Nancy Killefer Director, McKinsey & Company
  
  Nancy Killefer is a senior Director and the Office Manager of the Washington, D.C. Office of McKinsey & Company, Inc. She specializes in developing market strategies and improving organizational effectiveness for a wide range of clients and currently leads the firm's client capability building efforts.
  
  In over 20 years with the firm, Ms. Killefer has focused on strategy, marketing, and organizational effectiveness and efficiency issues for consumer goods and service businesses. Her client service has spanned a broad range of industries, including packaged goods, retailing, hotels, restaurants, pharmaceuticals, OTC, as well as government institutions.
  
  Ms. Killefer left McKinsey to serve as Assistant Secretary for Management, CFO, and COO at the United States Department of the Treasury from 1997 to 2000. In addition to overall management responsibilities for Treasury's 14 bureaus and 160,000 people, she led a major modernization at the Internal Revenue Service, prepared Treasury's systems for Y2K, and reshaped management processes, including installing an asset management program across the Treasury Department. After leaving the Department of the Treasury, she served on the IRS Oversight Board and as its chairperson from 2001 to 2005.
  
  Ms. Killefer received her M.B.A. from the Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds a B.A. with honors in economics from Vassar College. Prior to business school Ms. Killefer worked as an associate at Charles River Associates, a microeconomics consulting firm.

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  His move came less than three hours after Nancy Killefer withdrew her candidacy to be the nation's first chief performance officer for the federal government, explaining in a letter to Obama that she feared her own tax issues "could be used to create . . . distraction and delay."
  
  Obama increasingly has run up against the stark realities of Washington politics as he spent the early days of his administration trying to stiffen ethics requirements for his administration and struggled with congressional Republicans to win bipartisan support for stimulus spending and tax cuts to pull the country out of its worst economic swoon in 80 years.
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  Despite the heavy political weather surrounding Daschle and Killefer, there was welcome news when another Cabinet choice, Eric Holder, was confirmed by the Senate late Monday and sworn in Tuesday as the first African-American U.S. attorney general.

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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. Killefer was the second major Obama administration nominee to withdraw and the third to have tax problems complicate their nomination after President Barack Obama announced their selection.
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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.
  
  Does ANYBODY in the Democratic party pay taxes?
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  Work with us on tax reform or we bash you and Obama over the head with Daschle, Geithner, and Killefer for the next four years.

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  Also yesterday, Nancy Killefer withdrew her name from consideration as the White House performance officer because of problems over payment of payroll taxes for household help.

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  Ms. Burke joins Partnership for Public Service Founder Samuel J. Heyman, chairman, International Specialty Products; Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service; Tom Bernstein, president of Chelsea Piers Management, Inc.; John Bridgeland, former special assistant to the president and director of the USA Freedom Corps; Beth A. Brooke,global vice chair, Ernst & Young; Richard Danzig, former U.S. secretary of the Navy; Joel L. Fleishman, professor of law and director, Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy, and the Professions; Robert Ingram, vice chairman pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline; Nancy Killefer, senior partner of McKinsey & Company, Inc.; Sean O'Keefe, former NASA administrator; Susan Rice, senior fellow, Brookings Institution; and Cokie Roberts, political commentator for ABC News and senior news analyst for NPR News.

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  Also today, Nancy Killefer, who was to serve in a newly created White House oversight post, withdrew her nomination. Killefer acknowledged she had failed to pay employment taxes for a household employee.

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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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  Earlier yesterday, Nancy Killefer withdrew her name for consideration as the White House performance officer because of problems over payment of payroll taxes for household help.

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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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