time.com - 12/19/2008
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President-elect Barack Obama is nearly finished choosing his Cabinet as he prepares to leave on a holiday vacation in his native Hawaii
Obama's Cabinet
charlotteobserver.com 12/28/2008 — The Cabinet includes the vice president and the heads of 15 executive departments. Cabinet officers are nominated by the president and then presented to the United States Senate.
Six Cabinet Members Confirmed
thepage.time.com 1/20/2009 — The Senate unanimously approves half a dozen Obama nominees with a single vote following the Inauguration.
Vote puts in place Secs. Chu, Duncan, Napolitano, Salazar, Shinseki, Vilsack .
White House budget director Orszag also approved. ...
The Cabinet
whitehouse.gov 1/30/2009 — THE CABINET The tradition of the Cabinet dates back to the beginnings of the Presidency itself. Established in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, the Cabinet's role is to advise the President on any subject he may require relating to the ...
Whither the cabinet Republicans?
politico.com 11/23/2008 — As the top tier of his cabinet comes into focus it looks unlikely that Obama will break new ground when it comes to fashioning a bipartisan government.
Why Obama Wants Clinton in Cabinet
politicalwire.com 11/14/2008 — First Read : "The best reason for Obama to be looking for a place in his cabinet for
Clinton is simple: to get her out of the Senate. Just ask George W.
Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter what it was like to have a once or
future presidential rival ...
Obama Defends Cabinet: The Change Will Come From Me
huffingtonpost.com 11/26/2008 — Speaking to reporters for the third time in three days, Barack Obama was asked directly whether the staff choices he had made for his cabinet and advisory positions conflicted with his campaign message that the next president simply couldn't tap the ...
Obama Cabinet Still Not Complete
politicalwire.com 1/23/2009 — While 12 of the 18 people in President Obama's Cabinet have now been confirmed by the U.S. Senate, there are still five nominees still awaiting action: Tom Daschle for Health and Human Services Eric Holder for Attorney General Hilda Solis for Labor ...
Last Call for a Bipartisan Cabinet
blogs.cqpolitics.com 12/3/2008 — Now that President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet is, by his count, half picked, the odds are fading that he’ll have more than one Republican on his team — suggesting that his campaign promise to include Republicans may have meant ...
Cabinet Meetings
eschatonblog.com 12/1/2008 — Yglesias writes: Since no modern president actually governs via cabinet meetings... Obviously George Bush didn't govern via Cabinet meetings; they were just photo ops when he had them. But what about Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Carter, Ford? I ...
Poll: Americans confident Obama will make right Cabinet picks
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 11/17/2008 — WASHINGTON (CNN) — At the start of a week that could see Barack Obama make his first Cabinet secretary announcements, a new national poll suggests that most Americans are confident that the president-elect will make the right decisions when it ...
Inauguration: The Warren controversy —
First Read 12/19/2008
Rick Warren, the evangelical pastor whose inclusion at Obama’s inauguration has upset gay-rights supporters, released this statement last night: "I commend President-elect Obama for his courage to willingly take enormous heat from his base by ...
Agenda: Clinton list, stimulus deal —
First Read 12/19/2008
Here’s the New York Times’ take on the release of the Bill Clinton donor list: "Lifting a longstanding cloak of secrecy, Mr. Clinton on Thursday released a complete list of more than 200,000 donors to his foundation as part of an agreement to ...
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