WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) and Ranking Member Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) announced that the full committee will hold a hearing Tuesday, February 27, on the nomination of Sean O’Keefe to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Tuesday, February 27, 2001
10:30 AM
342 Senate Dirksen Office Building
Sean O’Keefe is currently a Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy and Director of Maxwell-SAIS National Security Studies at The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. O’Keefe served as Professor of Business Administration and Special Assistant to the Senior Vice President for Research, and Dean of the Graduate School at Pennsylvania State University from 1993 to 1996, as Secretary of the Navy in 1992 and 1993, Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Defense from1989 to 1992, Staff Director and Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations from 1981 to 1989, and as Budget Analyst for the Naval Sea Systems Command at the Department of the Navy in 1980 and 1981. O’Keefe holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola University and a Master of Public Administration from The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
The nominee will be introduced by Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Congressman James T. Walsh (R-NY).
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