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Obama Picks N.Y. Fed President Geithner as Treasury Secretary

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

President-elect Barack Obama has selected New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy F. Geithner as Treasury secretary, handing the post to a primary architect of the Bush administration's response to the financial crisis, according to Democratic and industry officials yesterday. ...more.

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Obama Names National Security Team

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:48 (Washington Post - Politics)

President-elect Barack Obama's high-powered national security team, introduced yesterday at a Chicago news conference, faces the challenge of managing two wars and various ongoing foreign policy crises even as it helps the president-elect shape what he called "a new beginning, a new dawn of Ameri... ...more.

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Obama Chooses Peter Orszag as Chief of Office of Management and Budget

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

Not long ago, the men and women minding the federal budget were pure number crunchers. But in choosing Peter R. Orszag to run the Office of Management and Budget, President-elect Barack Obama indicated yesterday that the job will have a more expansive portfolio in his administration. ...more.

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Obama Memorabilia Is Selling Like Hotcakes

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:49 (Washington Post - Politics)

As a pointless exercise in self-flagellation, it's fun to look back and wonder how you should have invested your money in the last year. You'd have ditched stocks and bonds, of course, and you would have avoided real estate. And if you really had foresight, you would have bet the rent on Barack... ...more.

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Some in the Arab World Worry that Clinton Would Be More Hawk Than Dove

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

There is possibly no person President-elect Barack Obama considered for secretary of state who is more reliably pro-Israel than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), the woman to whom he appears likely to give the job sometime after Thanksgiving. ...more.

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Nomination of Rice for U.N. Post Indicates a Shift Toward Multilateralism

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:48 (Washington Post - Politics)

As one of President-elect Barack Obama's closest campaign advisers and a fellow opponent of the war in Iraq, Susan E. Rice was regarded as a lock for a senior post in Washington after the election. ...more.

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Democrats' Stimulus Plan May Reach $700 Billion

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:50 (Washington Post - Politics)

Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years. ...more.

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Experience Will Be Prime Asset for Obama's Intelligence Chiefs

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:48 (Washington Post - Politics)

President-elect Barack Obama faces a dilemma in selecting his top intelligence advisers: finding experienced leaders who understand the challenges facing the various U.S. intelligence agencies -- but who are untainted by the controversies and problems that have plagued the intelligence apparatus... ...more.

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EPA, Interior Dept. Chiefs Will Be Busy Erasing Bush's Mark

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:49 (Washington Post - Politics)

Few federal agencies are expected to undergo as radical a transformation under President-elect Barack Obama as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, which have been at the epicenter of many of the Bush administration's most intense scientific and environmental controver... ...more.

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Experts Say Obama Must Build a Bipartisan Machine to Move Education Law

added on 2008-12-04 07:30:51 (Washington Post - Politics)

President-elect Barack Obama has made big promises to educators, parents and the nation's nearly 50 million public school students. He vowed to recruit an "army of new teachers," create better tests and give public schools more funding. He also said he would make college more affordable. ...more.

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