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Secretary Sylvia Burwell testifies at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services fiscal year 2017 budget proposal. She urged Congress to fund the depar…

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell testified before the House Ways and Means Committee. The hearing, which was listed as a fiscal year 2016 budget hearing, centered on the Su…

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell testified on her department’s fiscal year 2016 budget request. The request totaled $83.8 billion, including funds for improving access to h…

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell testified before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on her department’s fiscal year 2016 budget request. Topics included access to he…

Secretary Sylvia Burwell testified at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services' proposed fiscal year 2016 budget, which included funding for federall…

Three members of President Obama’s cabinet made brief remarks to the press after the first White House cabinet meeting of 2015. They addressed the fiscal year 2016 budget initiatives that af…

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell briefed reporters and responded to questions on her agency’s fiscal year 2016 budget request. Included in the budget was a biomedical resea…

The Senate Appropriations Committee held a hearing about ongoing federal government efforts to protect Americans from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Witnesses included Health and Human S…

Witnesses testified on President Obama’s request for emergency funds to deal with the flood of migrant children from Central America at the U.S. border. The respective secretaries of Homelan…

White House Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell talked about the Obama administration’s 2014 budget request, and said progress ccould be made with House Speaker John Boehner and Republica…

White House Budget Director Sylvia Burwell testified on President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal. The $3.9 trillion proposed budget would increase funding for the Departments of Ve…

White House Budget Director Sylvia Burwell testified at a Senate Budget Committee hearing on President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal. Topics included defense budget cuts, the over…

President Obama’s economic and budget advisers and White House spokesperson Jay Carney presented the administration’s fiscal year 2015 budget.

White House Budget Director Sylvia Burwell talked about the demands of her job and its effect on her family life. Other topics included income inequality and economic mobility. In her commen…

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough welcomed federal employees back to work the morning after Congress passed legislation to fund the government. He was seen greeting Sylvia Mathews B…

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held the first hearing on the nomination of Sylvia Burwell to be director of the Office of Management and Budget. Ms. Burwell,…

Sylvia Mathews Burwell testified before the Senate Budget Committee on her nomination for director of the Office of Management and Budget. She stressed that if confirmed she would be committ…