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Published 12/19/2008 at Reuters: Politics
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama on Friday named his picks to head the Transportation and Labor departments and his chief trade negotiator, filling the final three spots in his Cabinet-in-waiting.
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