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Obama team: send us your ideas
The Swampby Frank James President-elect Barack Obama was partly as successful as he was due to his use of the Internet to create and maintain a community of motivated supporters. Because that worked so well, Obama's transition team blasted out an......Tags: Barack Obama, Popular Music (genre), National Government, Government, White House
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Obama, John Roberts meeting today
The Swampby Frank James President-elect Barack Obama will be paying a courtesy call this afternoon to the man he once voted against to lead the nation's highest court, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Back in September 2005, Obama voted against......Tags: Barack Obama, Laws, Social Issues, Joe Biden, Court Administration
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Obama, Baucus still back Geithner
The Swampby Frank James The Obama presidential transition issued a statement responding to disclosures that Tim Geithner, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Treasury Secretary, once employed an immigrant domestic worker with an expired work authorization...Tags: Barack Obama, Parliament, Business, Wages and Pensions, Politics
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Obama officials in disaster prep
The Swampby Frank James There was a so-called table-top exercise today at the White House in which senior officials of the incoming Obama Administration rehearsed their roles in the event of a national emergency. Details of the scenario weren't released by......Tags: Defense, Environmental Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Disasters, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Geithner: Does tax error pass smell test?
Spin CycleTimothy Geithner, Obama's nominee as Treasury Secretary, has disclosed a couple of problems -- employing an undocumented housekeeper for a couple of years, and mistakenly not paying self-employment taxes on money he earned at the IMF. The Obama camp......Tags: Barack Obama, New Mexico, Timothy Geithner, Wages and Pensions, Politics
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Genachowski is Obama's FCC pick
The Swampby Frank James President-elect Barack Obama is reportedly going to name his old Harvard Law Review colleague Julius Genachowski to chair the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski, 46, has led Obama's technology, media and telecommunications...Tags: Barack Obama, Web.com Incorporated, Parliament, Court Administration, Politics
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Holder: GOP blurs the issue with FALN
Spin CycleAG nominee Eric Holder's confirmation hearing begins tomorrow, and Republicans apparently intend to go well beyond his recommendation of a pardon for fugitive Marc Rich to explore issues like his 2d Amendment views and his support of Bill Clinton's......Tags: Bill Clinton, Crime, Law and Justice, Eric Holder, National Government, Government
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Will stimulus lack 'green' infrastructure?
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley Barack Obama has pitched his stimulus package as a quick jolt for the ailing economy and a "down payment" on his priorities as president. But those goals appear to be colliding in at least one key area:......Tags: Barack Obama, Steven Chu, New York, Alternative Energy, New Jersey
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Barack Obama: 'Pragmatic progressive'
The Swampby Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten Some liberals might think that R. Bruce Josten has no business visiting President-elect Barack Obama's transition office once, let alone 16 times. That's because Josten is the top lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of......Tags: Defense, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Politics, George W. Bush
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Chu gets nerdy on energy
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley There's a difference between a Nobel-Prize-winning physicist and your garden variety cabinet nominee. That difference: nerdiness. And we mean that in the best possible way. Witness this fantastically detailed video posted on the change....Tags: Steven Chu, Science and Technology
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Obama gets high approval for transition
The Swampby Frank James We have more evidence that President-elect Barack Obama enjoys a tremendous amount of political capital as he heads into his inauguration Tuesday. Gallup's pollsters report that Obama gets a relatively high 83 percent approval rating for...Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, New Mexico, National Government
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Change.gov morphs into WhiteHouse.gov
The Swampby Frank James The White House website, whitehouse.gov successfully made the transition along with President Obama. It looks a lot like the change.gov site which was used by Obama's presidential transition but is now defunct. President Bill Clinton was......Tags: George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, National Government, Government, White House
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