萨默斯将要出任美国国家经济委员会主席
Lawrence Summers To Head National Economic Council2008年11月24日
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will name former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers the director of his National Economic Council, placing the Harvard University economist he passed over for Treasury Secretary inside the White House as his closest economic adviser, Democratic officials said Saturday night.
The move came as the president-elect prepares Monday to introduce his new Treasury Secretary nominee, Timothy Geithner, and the rest of his economic team at an event in Chicago Monday. Among those on stage will be Summers, who was central to his campaign's economic team and is now leading efforts to draft a massive economic stimulus plan the president-elect hopes to sign into law as one of his first acts as the nation's leader.
Obama has instructed his economic advisers to draft a stimulus that could dwarf the $175 billion version he campaigned on, stretching it over two years and pushing to create 2.5 million new jobs with it.
The plan, with its extended time horizon, could also push back planned tax increases on families earning over $250,000 from a planned 2010 start date to 2011, when they are set to expire in current law, economists familiar with the effort say.
'I have already directed my economic team to come up with an Economic Recovery Plan that will mean 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011 - a plan big enough to meet the challenges we face that I intend to sign soon after taking office,' Obama said in his Saturday radio address.
The plan he campaigned on was supposed to be large enough to create 1 million new jobs, though aides cautioned a final price tag could not be determined simply by more than doubling the initial $175 billion figure. Experts have called for economic infusions anywhere from $300 billion to $500 billion, a range that Obama aides are working within.
Jonathan Weisman
萨默斯将出任美国国家经济委员会主席
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主党官员上周六晚间称，美国当选总统奥巴马将任命前财政部长萨默斯出任国家经济委员会主席，将这位没有被他任命为财政部长的哈佛大学经济学家安置在白宫里作为与其关系最密切的经济顾问。
Getty Images 奥巴马7月份时曾与萨默斯会面
奥巴马周一将在芝加哥的一次活动中介绍他的新财政部长人选盖纳和经济小组的其他成员。其中将包括萨默斯，他曾是奥巴马竞选阵营经济小组的核心人物，目前负责起草大规模经济刺激计划──奥巴马希望能签署实施该计划，作为他就任总统后的首次行动之一。
奥巴马已经指示他的经济顾问起草一项刺激计划，规模可能会超过他竞选期间提出的1,750亿美元，该计划将为时两年，创造250万个新的就业岗位。
据知情经济学家称，由于这项计划的执行期被延长，可能还会令对年收入25万美元以上家庭增加课税的起始时间从2010年推迟到2011年；根据现有法律的规定，增税计划将于2011年到期。
Lawrence Summers
奥巴马上周六通过电台发表演讲称，我已经指示我的经济小组制定一项经济恢复计划，这将意味着在2011年1月前创造250个新的就业岗位，这个计划的规模足以应对我们面临的挑战，我计划上任后很快就会签署实施。
奥巴马竞选期间提出的计划应该足以创造100万个新岗位，不过奥巴马的助手提醒说，经济刺激计划的最终规模可能不是将最初计划的1,750亿美元翻倍那么简单。专家们已经呼吁进行规模达3,000亿-5,000亿美元的经济救助，奥巴马的助手们正按照这个范围制定具体措施。
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