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Melody Barnes - CSPAN Q&A (video)

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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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thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008

Obama to appoint Melody Barnes as head of Domestic Policy Council.

— thinkprogress.org — 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 ... (more) Obama to appoint Melody Barnes as head of Domestic ...

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/24/2008

Melody Barnes to Run Domestic Policy Council

— 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 ... (more) Melody Barnes to Run Domestic Policy Council

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washingtonpost.com - 11/24/2008

Melody Barnes - What a Progressive President Might Say

— 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 ... (more) Melody Barnes - What a Progressive President Might Say

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Obama to appoint Melody Barnes as head of Domestic Policy Council.
Think Progress — 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 President.” In her new role, Melody will be working with allies such as incoming HHS Secretary Tom Daschle to bring about comprehensive health care reform. Her policy portfolio will include issues such as education, immigration, criminal justice, and other domestic issues. Melody was a former Executive Vice President for Policy at the ...

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 American life it’s a very important job. ...

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 Veterans Affairs on a mega-board." A former Executive ...

Back to the Left With Barnes?
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — CQ Politics makes the argument: Melody C. Barnes, who was among the economic team members that Obama introduced on Monday, is a former chief counsel to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., on the Senate Judiciary Committee who served as executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress - the lefty Washington think tank founded by John D. Podesta, who heads Obama's transition effort - before joining Obama's campaign as a senior adviser... A C-Span clip making the rounds on YouTube reveals Barnes to be something of an idealist. Much of her political thinking was shaped by dinner table conversations about Vietnam ...