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Obama's Super-Cabinet
Betsy's Page — Obama is appointing a record number of "czars" who will have the responsibility of coordinating policy in their specific areas of responsibility across the federal government. "We're going to have so many czars," said Thomas J. Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "It's going to be a lot of fun, seeing the czars and the regulators and the czars and the Cabinet secretaries debate." Carol M. Browner, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency in the Clinton administration, is taking on a broad new portfolio with responsibility for Obama's ambitious agenda on the ...

A Quarterback or a Halfwit?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... as president” on energy and climate policy. He said Browner will have the power to “demand integration among different agencies; cooperation between federal, state and local governments; and partnership with the private sector.” Daniel J. Weiss, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said, “The energy and global warming problems are so broad, it’s a necessity to have a quarterback.” The Washington Post Carol Browner was the EPA chief under Bill Clinton.Since that time she ...