thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008
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Later today, President-elect Barack Obama will announce that our friend and former colleague Melody Barnes will be named as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. The Council “ coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White House and offers policy advice to the ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
My ThinkProgress colleagues are reporting that Melody Barnes,
who was at CAP before I got on board,
will head the Domestic Policy Council in the Obama White House. The DPC is in charge of interagency coordination and policy formation for such ...
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Melody Barnes to Run Domestic Policy Council
youtube.com - 11/24/2008
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youtube.com —
Center for American Progress Executive Vice President for
Policy Melody Barnes interviewed by CSPAN's Brian Lamb for
Q&A CSPAN's program profiling influe...
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Melody Barnes - CSPAN Q&A (video)
washingtonpost.com - 11/24/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Tomorrow President Bush will deliver his State of
the Union address. While this speech is sure to
be filled with the President's plans for moving the nation forward, it is also sure to be very different from one that a progressive would deliver. If we ...
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Melody Barnes - What a Progressive President Might Say
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Melody Barnes to Run Domestic Policy Council
Matthew Yglesias —
... My ThinkProgress colleagues are reporting that Melody Barnes, who was at CAP before I got on board, will head the Domestic Policy Council in the Obama White House. The DPC is in charge of interagency coordination and policy formation for such topics as education, immigration, criminal justice, and health care — in short, domestic policy. This hasn’t been a very high-profile role under the Bush administration since Bush doesn’t really believe in domestic policy aside from tax cuts, but for an administration that’s trying to play a constructive role in ...
Obama Names a Woman, Christina Romer for CEA Chair
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
... Obama also named Melody Barnes as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. Melody Barnes is a former Executive Vice President for Policy at the lefty think tank, Center for American Progress. ...
Where The Progressives Are
Open Left - Front Page —
... Melody Barnes, Director of Domestic Policy Council: Melody Barnes will head the Domestic Policy council, which coordinates policy-making between a number of federal departments. Barnes worked for Ted Kennedy for a long time, and also for the Center for American Progress. ...
Teaspoon by Teaspoon, We Take the Country Back
Shakesville —
Meet Melody Barnes. During a press conference earlier today, President-Elect Obama announced that she has been chosen as his Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, a role that entails coordinating the domestic policy-making and –makers for the White House. As Shaker Afroacademic aptly described the role in comments, Barnes will be "the Domestic policy czar leading the Cabinet secretaries of Health and Human Services, Justice, Labor, Education, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Energy, Treasury, Agriculture, Transportation, Interior and ...
So far...
SCSUScholars —
... . The background of Melody Barnes probably should concern me, but I don't know enough about her yet to formulate an opinion. (Look, it could have been Robert Reich. Thank God for small favors, as it were.) I'd say ...
11/25: Judging Obama By The Company He Keeps
Blogometer —
... Melody Barnes -- a former Executive VP at the Center for American Progress -- to serve as Director of the Domestic Policy Council for his administration: ...
Tsk-tsk, Obama Disappointing Karl Rove
Firedoglake —
... Sirota's observations were quite salient, and Barnes is a welcome exception. She isn't simply in charge of packaging Obama policy for progressive consumption. The Council "coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White House and offers policy advice to the President.” Hence the disproportionate pissed-offedness of the Turdly one. ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 11/24/2008 — Here’s a January 2007 Melody Barnes op-ed on what a progressive president might say in a Sate of the Union address:
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blogs.tnr.com 12/11/2008 — Barack Obama will be holding a press conference in Chicago on Thursday. And it's safe bet that most of the political world will be watching to hear Obama give his first extended remarks about the Rod Blagojevich scandal. But Obama will be making ...
Appointees
becoming44.org 12/8/2008 — Name Position Other Affiliations Melody Barnes Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council Obama Domestic Policy Advisor Lisa Brown White House Secretary Executive Director, American Constitution Society for Law and Policy; Counsel to Vice ...
Obama's economic dream team —
CNN Political Ticker 11/24/2008
Timothy Geithner is a member of the Obama economic dream team to be officially announced Monday.
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