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“Higginbottom attended Chenango Valley High School in Binghamton, NY. Higginbottom received her Master of Public Policy degree at what is now called the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester.”

“From 1999 to 2007, Higginbottom served as legislative director for Senator John Kerry. She also served as the Deputy National Policy Director for the Kerry-Edwards Presidential Campaign for the primary and general elections.

After the 2004 election, Higginbottom founded and served as Executive Director of the American Security Project, a national security think tank. She began her career as an advocate with the national non-profit organization Communities In Schools.

On November 24, 2008, it was announced that Higginbottom has been appointed the Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council in the administration of President Barack Obama.[1]

On January 7, 2011, President Obama nominated Higginbottom to the position of Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget”

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Senator Says Former Obama Adviser Unqualified for Deputy Budget Post

By Stephen Clark

Published April 02, 2011

FoxNews.com

 

A former campaign adviser to President Obama is facing fierce opposition from at least one Senate Republican to her nomination as deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

 

Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Budget Committee, says that Heather Higginbottom, a former legislative director for Sen. John Kerry, doesn’t have the chops to become the deputy in charge of the government’s $3.7 trillion budget.

 

"Ms. Higginbottom's experience level is stunningly lacking," Sessions said Thursday. "She's never served on the Budget Committee, never studied business. Never run a business. Never been a mayor of a town."

 

"The most important thing is she does not have the kind of experience in business or accounting or budget or responsibility or management that you would look for in the second-in-command of the Congressional Budget Office, the most central unit in our entire governmental structure, committed to containing wasteful spending," he said. "We need somebody who will go after waste, fraud and abuse."

 

The fate of her nomination is uncertain after the Senate Budget Committee delayed her confirmation vote Thursday and rescheduled it for Tuesday. If her nomination clears the committee, the remaining hurdle will be a vote in the full Senate.

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