Talk:S. Elizabeth Birnbaum

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fired or resigned?

"The president has been actively engaged in the crisis -- firing the head of the Minerals Management Service, extending the moratorium on further offshore drilling and increasing the federal presence in the region."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/02/obama.oil.spill.tone/index.html?hpt=T2

RESPONSE: According to the NY Times, "she was forced to resign", which is not quite the same as being fired.

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/05/28/28greenwire-mms-directors-game-of-telephone-ends-in-firing-61751.html TheBilby (talk) 16:52, 26 March 2011 (UTC) TheBilby[reply]