US Senate confirms Obama treasury secretary (AFP)
Published 1/27/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AFP - The US Senate voted Monday to confirm Timothy Geithner as US treasury secretary, despite misgivings over his personal tax problems and ongoing government efforts to rescue the battered US economy.
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