Obama Takes Economic Team on Burger Run After Debt-Limit Deal

POLITICS -- August 3, 2011 at 3:02 PM EDT

Obama Takes Economic Team on Burger Run After Debt-Limit Deal

A day after signing a compromise debt-ceiling bill into law, President Obama took his economic advisers to lunch at a Capitol Hill burger joint.

Good Stuff Eatery features burgers named after the president and the first lady and touts the use of natural ingredients.

The president's dining companions included Jack Lew, budget director; Director of the National Economic Council Gene Sperling; Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Nancy Ann DeParle; Rob Nabors, assistant to the president and director, legislative affairs; Chief of Staff to the Vice President Bruce Reed.

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