President-elect Barack Obama has offered the position of US Surgeon General to CNN physician specialist Dr,. Sanjay Gupta.
Gupta has told administration officials that he wants the job, and the final vetting process is under way. He has asked for a few days to figure out the financial and logistical details of moving his family from [...]
President-elect Barack Obama has tapped former Bill Clinton Chief of Staff Leon Panetta as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
President-elect Barack Obama has selected Leon E. Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff, to take over the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization that Mr. Obama criticized during the campaign for using [...]
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has withdrawn his name for nomination as President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of Commerce.
A federal grand jury is investigating how a California company that contributed to Richardson’s political activities won a New Mexico state contract worth more than $1 billion. Richardson said in a statement issued by the Obama transition office [...]
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President-elect Barack Obama filled three more Financial positions and stressed more thorough and tougher regulations to prevent financial relapses.
As reported last night, Obama formally nominated Mary Schapiro to be Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Schapiro will have a tough job to clean up the egg on the SEC’s face after missing a huge [...]
President-elect Barack Obama is set to announce Mary Scapiro as his choice to run the Securities Exchange Commission. Schapiro is a former SEC Commissioner and will become the first woman to be named as the Chief Executive of the SEC.
Ms. Schapiro, a former SEC commissioner, is chief of Wall Street’s self-regulator, the Financial Industry Regulatory [...]
President-elect Barack Obama has announced his appointment for Housing and Urban Develeopment. Obama has tapped New York City Housing Commissoner Shaun Donovan for HUD Secretary. Donovan is a former Bill Clinton aide and is well know and has a strong reputation for directing programs that create more affordable housing opportunities.
Here is the Obama announcement of [...]
A message has been sent to all nations and elements in the Middle East. The message is clear, the message is convincing, and the message was delivered by the person it needed to come from, current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Gates will serve in the same role for President-elect Barack Obama.
Mr. Gates, who was [...]
President-elect Barack Obama is rounding out his Administration with coming appointments to Secretary of Energy and EPA Administrator. Obama has chosen Nobel Peace Prize winner Steven Chu to be Secretary of Energy.
Chu was one of three scientists who shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1997 for work in cooling and trapping atoms with laser [...]
President-elect Barack Obama will appoint Xavier Becerra as United States Trade Representative. Becerra voted for, but regrets his vote for NAFTA.
Earlier today, Obama finished out the appointment of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Secretary of Commerce and labeled him as his Top Economic Diplomat. Becerra will join that economic diplomat team. After Richardson, [...]
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