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One Cabinet pick approved, two narrowly advance
WASHINGTON — President Obama's nominee to lead the Energy Department won unanimous confirmation by the Senate on Thursday while two other Cabinet choices narrowly advanced out of committee, amid complaints from Democrats over Republican delaying...
Tags: Marco Rubio, Work Relations, White House, Justice System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Pritzker reveals finances, board resignation plans
Tribune reportersChicago billionaire Penny Pritzker intends to resign from corporate boards, including that of Hyatt Hotels Corp., and reported that she received nearly $54 million in consulting fees last year from an off-shore Bahamian trust, the U.S. Commerce...Tags: Fiserv Incorporated, Credit and Debt, White House, Charles Schwab, Primaries
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Indiana Statehouse ceremony honors late Gov. Bowen
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence bowed his head in silence Wednesday during a solemn Statehouse memorial for former Gov. Otis "Doc" Bowen as an honor guard posted in the domed Rotunda kept watch over the late governor's official state portrait...
Tags: AIDS, Government, Civil and Public Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Executive Branch
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U.S. transport chief LaHood exits politics, Obama picks Foxx
ReutersBy Roberta Rampton and Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - For the past four years, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has rarely passed up the chance to chide American drivers for using mobile phones and other devices while driving, often...Tags: Barack Obama, White House, Elections, Charlotte, Ray LaHood
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Ten years after Iraq war began, Iran reaps the gains
BAGHDAD — Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the geopolitical winner of the war appears to be their common enemy: Iran. American military forces are long gone, and Iraqi officials say Washington's...Tags: Bashar Assad, International Military Interventions, Iran, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Iraq
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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrested on federal charges
Tribune staff reportsThe predawn rousting of Gov. Rod Blagojevich from his Ravenswood Manor home Tuesday marked a stunning climax to a tale of alleged public corruption unmatched in Illinois' storied history of elected scoundrels and thrust the state into an unprecedented...Tags: George Ryan, Justice System, Lawyers, Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Senate
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Obama and his Cabinet are not qualified to run the government
Any manager working in private business has, most likely more than once, made cost reductions. When doing so, they try to achieve the savings with the smallest impact on the central business of the company. Listening to members of President Obama's...Tags: Barack Obama
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The challenges at the Interior Dept.
U.S. secretaries of the Interior have seldom been renowned for being … well, renowned. Typically affable former members of Congress who reliably see things according to the president's point of view, they are nearly always Western conservationists,...
Tags: Energy Resources, Barack Obama, Sally Jewell, Petroleum Industry, Politics
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Senator vows to delay Obama's nominees over Libya
WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Republican senator said Sunday he would hold up Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominees to head the Pentagon and the CIA until the White House provided more answers about the Sept. 11 attack against a U....
Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, National Security, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, White House
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Chan Lowe: Obama's cabinet picks
Presidential staffing is where symbolism and pragmatism collide. It’s also where the dual nature of the presidency—as head of state and head of government—becomes most problematic for the occupant. On the one hand, as chief...
Tags: Government, Barack Obama, Heads of State, Politics
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In picking Lew, Obama turns a page at Treasury
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's nominee for treasury secretary, is a premier federal budget expert who would take the helm of the government's main agency for economic and fiscal policy just as the administration girds itself...Tags: Hilda Solis, Jack Lew, New York University, Fiscal Cliff, White House
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Obama Cabinet shuffle taking shape
WASHINGTON (AP) — The composition of President Barack Obama's second term Cabinet became clearer Wednesday, with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis resigning and three other members of the president's team deciding to stay on amid concerns about...
Tags: Lisa P. Jackson, Hilda Solis, Justice and Rights, Jack Lew, Kathleen Sebelius
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