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Trade group SIFMA names ex-Senator Gregg as CEO
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - SIFMA, the securities industry's largest trade group, named former Senator Judd Gregg as chief executive officer, in a move that may signal a desire to mend fences with ordinary Americans and Congress. The Securities Industry and...Tags: Finance, Government, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Barack Obama, U.S. Senate
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Tom Perez and the 'nuclear option'
Republicans accuse Thomas E. Perez, President Barack Obama's nominee for labor secretary, of twisting the legal process in three cases in St. Paul, Minn., to suit his political purposes. But it is they who are twisting the Senate's role to "advise and...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Barack Obama, Environmental Politics, Civil Rights
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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: Government, Work Relations, Washington, DC, Environmental Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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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, Neiman Marcus, Hyatt Hotels Corp., Penny Pritzker, White House
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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: Civil and Public Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Government, Family, AIDS
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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, Washington, DC, Ray LaHood, Charlotte, Elections
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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: U.S. Department of the Interior, Sally Jewell, Barack Obama, Energy Resources, Petroleum Industry
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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: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, U.S. Department of Defense
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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, Politics, Heads of State
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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: Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Defense, New York University, Freddie Mac, 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: U.S. Department of Justice, Human Rights, Government, Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Defense
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