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Anti-Regulation Aide to Cheney Is Up for Energy Post

 

Published 8/19/2008 by Juliet Eilperin at Wash Post Obama Administration

A senior aide to Vice President Cheney is the leading contender to become a top official at the Energy Department, according to several current and former administration officials, a promotion that would put one of the administration's most ardent opponents of environmental regulation in charge of... (link)

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