Bush picks new OMB deputy

President Bush on Tuesday nominated Nancy Dorn to be deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Dorn is currently the legislative affairs assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney and previously served as a foreign policy adviser to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.

During the Reagan administration, Dorn handled legislative affairs at the State Department. After a stint as a White House lobbyist for former President George Bush, she went to the Pentagon to be an adviser on inter-American affairs.

The older Bush also made Dorn the first woman and the youngest person to serve as assistant Army secretary for civil works.

In 1997, Dorn was former President Clinton's GOP appointee to the Inter-American Foundation. She also was a principal in the Nancy Dorn Company and a partner at the Hooper Owen & Winburn law firm.