Tom Daschle accepts Obama offer to lead Health and Human Services
Los Angeles Times - 49 minutes ago
Ron Edmonds / AP Daschle, a former Senate majority leader, would head the agency that will handle the incoming administration's efforts to expand health insurance coverage, a Democratic source says.
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Daschle to Be Nominee for Health Post in Obama Cabinet
New York Times - 54 minutes ago
By HELENE COOPER and PETER BAKER WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama has decided to nominate former Senator Thomas A. Daschle of South Dakota as secretary of health and human services, and is leaning toward former Deputy Attorney General Eric H.
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Obama picks chief of economic policy team
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Daniel Tarullo, a Georgetown University professor mentioned as a possible "auto czar" in the Obama administration, will lead the Obama transition effort's economic policy team.
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Qaeda Deputy Notes Obama Victory, With Insult
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By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON - In Al Qaeda’s first response to an American election that drew an enthusiastic response from Muslims worldwide, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy condemned President-elect Barack Obama as a “house Negro” who …
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Traitor Joe
New Haven Advocate - 1 hour ago
By Advocate Readers I can just picture the Lieberman/Obama meeting (“Joe vs. Joe,” Nov. 13). “Look, he’s been my closest friend for 30 years, and he asked for my support.
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Secretary of State Clinton?
Christian Science Monitor - 1 hour ago
By John Hughes Provo, Utah - If Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of State, it could not have escaped the attention of the Clinton and Obama camps that this might turn out to be a nifty launching pad for her to make another run at the presidency …
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Romney’s Detours on Detroit
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By Michael Luo Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential candidate, created a bit of a stir today by writing an op-ed in The New York Times that featured the provocative headline: “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.
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Reporter's Notebook: Happy Birthday, Sen. Stevens
FOXNews - 2 hours ago
Adding to the bad year he's having, Ted Stevens lost his Alaska Senate re-election on his 85th birthday. BY Chad Pergram Tuesday in the Senate was about gifts and birthday wishes.
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CBO chief likely pick as budget director
The Associated Press - 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Budget Office chief Peter Orszag is the front-runner to be President-elect Barack Obama's budget director, Capitol Hill Democrats say.
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Patterson calls Romney's bankruptcy idea 'way off base'
Detroit Free Press - 1 hour ago
By CHRIS CHRISTOFF • FREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU • November 19, 2008 Mitt Romney stunned at least one of his most ardent Michigan political backers, when he wrote in an op-ed piece in today’s New York Times that US automakers should be allowed to fall …
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