Antonio Weiss at treasury

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3. Here's what they're thinking...

From: http://www.pdaillinois.org/site/content/senator-warren-leads-drive-block-obamas-treasury-appointment

“Antonio Weiss is a highly qualified nominee and we look forward to the Senate’s consideration of his nomination and swift confirmation,” White House spokesperson Jennifer Friedman said in an emailed statement on Tuesday.

Treasury officials and other Weiss supporters note the Lazard banker’s long background supporting progressive tax policy, including co-authorship of a Center for American Progress report on the topic. They also note that he is publisher of the literary journal Paris Review and was a prodigious fundraiser for both of Obama’s presidential campaigns.

Around Wall Street, Weiss is considered a left-leaning Democrat who would line up pretty closely with most of Sen. Warren’s views on tax and regulatory policy.

“He has truly progressive values and completely supports the financial reform agenda of the president,” said Gene Sperling, a former top Obama economic adviser who has often served as a bridge between progressive and centrist Democrats. “And his background and knowledge will be helpful in ensuring that reforms designed to help small businesses and families are not subverted or circumvented by Wall Street manipulation that generalist policymakers might not see coming.”