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Albright, Leach to represent Obama at summit

 

Published 11/12/2008 by rsinderbrand at CNN Political Ticker

WASHINGTON (CNN) – President-elect Barack Obama's transition team announced Wednesday that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach will represent the incoming administration at the G-20 economic summit being hosted by President Bush on November 15. Obama himself will not attend the summit. Albright and Leach are "an experienced and [...] (link)

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