Obama taps bipartisan team for economic summit (AP)

Obama: Lobbyists Won’t Find a Job in My White House . . . But They Certainly Are Welcome to Work on My Transition!
patterico.com 11/12/2008 — Barack Obama, November 3, 2007: One year from now, we have the chance to tell all those corporate lobbyists that the days of them setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race ...

At Private Meeting, Top Union Leaders To Plan Huge Campaign To Press For Labor's Demands
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/12/2008 — At a private meeting tomorrow in Washington, D.C., the most powerful and prominent leaders of the labor movement are planning to finalize the details of a major public campaign to push for what labor is hoping to get from the incoming Obama ...

Another Indictment in Offshore UBS Shelter Case
motherjones.com 11/12/2008 — As we reported in the current November/December 2008 issue, UBS is being pursued by the IRS and Department of Justice for helping American clients evade taxes on some $20 billion offshore assets. News today is yet another banker, Raoul Weil, has been indicted . Though the indictment does not ...

USATODAY.com
usatoday.com 11/12/2008 — Barack Obama made history as America's first African-American president. He now has a chance to shatter another historic White House convention — as the first chief executive in three decades to send his children to a local public school. Such a ...

Big names drafted to Obama's transition team: report
afp.google.com 11/12/2008 — Big names drafted to Obama's transition team: report 2 days ago WASHINGTON (AFP) Former secretary of state Warren Christopher and respected Democratic former senator Sam Nunn will head president-elect Barack Obama's transition teams in key government ...

Obama Sending Reps, Leach And Albright, To G-20 — Hotline On Call Part Deux

Crickets in Chicago — Ben Smith's Blog

Leach and Albright Will Attend G-20 Summit For Obama-Biden — Real Clear Politics - TIME.com

Letting Bush Have His Moment (Sort of) — The Stump

Obama Dispatches Bipartisan Reps To G-20 Summit — TPM Election Central

Obama health plan to cost $75 billion: analysis — Reuters: Politics 11/12/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's plans to overhaul the U.S. health care system would cost the federal government $75 billion but would provide health insurance for 95 percent of Americans, consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers ...

Obama asks Albright to meet delegations at G20 — Reuters: Politics 11/12/2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has tapped former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and a former Republican congressman to meet foreign delegations at the global financial summit in Washington this weekend.

Help wanted at the Obama White House — CNN Political Ticker 11/12/2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) – An epidemic of layoffs is plaguing the country, but the Help Wanted sign is out in Washington: President-elect Obama's new administration needs to fill 7,996 positions according to the Plum Book, the quadrennial list of jobs ...

Obama taps bipartisan economic summit team — msnbc.com: Politics 11/12/2008
The President-elect will dispatch former GOP Rep. Jim Leach and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a Democrat, to represent him among world leaders at next weekend's economic  meeting.

Albright, Leach to represent Obama at summit — CNN Political Ticker 11/12/2008
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 ...