change.gov - 11/20/2008
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Find, Disrupt, and Destroy Al Qaeda: Responsibly end the war in Iraq and focus on the right battlefield in Afghanistan. Work with other nations to strengthen their capacity to eliminate shared enemies. New Capabilities to Aggressively Defeat Terrorists: Improve the American intelligence ...
change.gov - 11/18/2008
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Centralize Ethics and Lobbying Information for Voters: Obama
and Biden will create a centralized Internet database of...
lobbying reports, ethics records, and campaign finance filings in a searchable, sortable and downloadable format. Require Independent ...
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Ethics | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
change.gov - 11/18/2008
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Combat Employment Discrimination: Obama and Biden will work
to overturn the Supreme Court's recent ruling that curtails...
racial minorities' and women's ability to challenge pay discrimination. They will also pass the Fair Pay Act, to ensure that women ...
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Civil Rights | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
change.gov - 11/14/2008
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Tom Wheeler is a member of the Obama-Biden
Transition Project s Agency Review Working Group responsible for...
overseeing review of the science, technology, space and arts agencies. Department of Commerce Review Team Leads Don Beyer is the owner of five ...
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Science, Tech, Space and Arts Team Leads | Change.gov: ...
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Emma Belcher: Throwing Out the Bathwater, but Keeping the Baby
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... (PDF) that U.S. agencies clarify policies and procedures internally, and that the U.S. develop stronger relationships with all participants, beyond the 19 they have favored to-date, are well made. President-elect Obama's calls for institutionalizing the PSI (presumably to formalize commitment and decision-making), however, could upset the balance if taken too far, resulting in the loss of significant participants who are opposed to a formal commitment, and frustrate attempts to act in real time by adding red tape. ...
WMD Czar, We Hardly Knew Ye
Political Punch —
... in less elite terms than the WMD Czar Congress mandated, saying he or she would be "a deputy national security advisor to be in charge of coordinating all U.S. programs aimed at reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism and weapons proliferation." The current Obama-Biden Transition Team Web site uses the same language . The current Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff today suggested that the WMD Czar was not necessary."At a minimum you ought to take a couple years and make sure you're using existing structures as well as you can," Chertoff said. ...
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Iraq | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
change.gov 11/19/2008 — The Obama-Biden Plan Barack Obama and Joe Biden will responsibly end the war in Iraq so that we can renew our military strength, dedicate more resources to the fight against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and invest in our economy at home. ...
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change.gov 12/12/2008 — The Obama-Biden Transition Team will only accept #10 envelopes. All other mail will be returned to sender. Due to security and the high volume of mail the Transition Team receives, we can no longer accept packages. In addition, we regret that ...
Newsweek: Who will head Homeland Security Office?
blog.newsweek.com 11/16/2008 — Obama's team for Homeland Security will only meet for the first time later this week, according to a Democrat close to the Obama campaign The person reportedly heading the team is Rand Beers, a former White House and State Department adviser on ...
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