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Policy Working Groups | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
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The focus of the Policy Working Groups will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for action during the Obama-Biden Administration. The Policy Working Groups will focus on the following areas: Economy, Education, Energy & Environment, Health Care, ...
change.gov - 11/18/2008
Ethics | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
— change.gov — 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 ... (more) Ethics | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team

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Civil Rights | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
— change.gov — 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 ... (more) Civil Rights | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team

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Science, Tech, Space and Arts Team Leads | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
— change.gov — 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 ... (more) Science, Tech, Space and Arts Team Leads | Change.gov: ...

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Obama-Biden Policy Working Groups
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH Just announced policy working groups. The one of greatest interest around here is good news, something I’ve already written about before: ...

Could Policy Group Heads Be Cabinet Picks?
The Stump — ... The transition team announced today the leaders of its seven policy working groups, which will develop policy proposals for the new administration. A list of the group leaders is here. Many of them are already on the transition team and the Cabinet shortlist, including ...

Daily Digest: If Obama and the Netroots Were in a Relationship on Facebook...
techPresident — They'd Check the "It's Complicated" Box: "[I]t's all true," says Open Left's Chris Bowers, "Everything you are writing and/or thinking about the progressive blogosphere is correct, almost no matter what you are writing or thinking." The netroots, writes Bowers, is home to both those who criticize President-elect Barack Obama and those who criticizes those who criticize him -- and people who have it out for both. That's natural, Bowers says, for a space with "several million daily participants and virtually no ...

War and Piece — | Main November 26, 2008 Members of Obama's transition policy working group named . Posted by Laura at November 26, 2008 09:02 AM

Tim Shorrock and Frank Naif: Top Intelligence Picks a No-Win for Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — The Obama transition team's highly anticipated announcement of its new national security lineup has telling omissions: there's no Director of National Intelligence or CIA Director. The Obama administration faces a daunting task in choosing new intelligence chiefs. Nearly any credible candidate for senior intelligence leadership appointments is likely to come with baggage, such as past involvement in questionable intelligence activities and/or the growing network of secretive intelligence contractors. Obama's presumptive top contender for an intelligence leadership post exited the stage last week. John ...

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