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Judd Gregg Commerce Sec'y app't likely
The Swampby Christi Parsons Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire is the leading candidate to become President Barack Obama's commerce secretary, an administration official said Saturday, in a decision that could come as early as Monday. Gregg's appointment would add...Tags: John Lynch, Upper House, Politics, National Government, New Mexico
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Daschle's tax problem: Second nominee
The Swampby Noam N. Levey Former Sen. Tom Daschle, tapped by President Obama to lead his healthcare reform campaign, failed to pay more than $128,000 in taxes in the three years before Obama nominated him in December to head the Department......Tags: Timothy Geithner, South Dakota, Business Trips, Upper House, Politics
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Tom Daschle withdraws: 'Distraction'
The Swampby Mark Silva Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader whom President Barack Obama had nominated for secretary of Health and Human Services, withdrew today amid growing criticism over his payment of more than $120,000 in taxes owed for a......Tags: South Dakota, Upper House, Politics, National Government, New Mexico
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Obama gives Gregg official Commerce nod
The Swampby Frank James In another demonstration of his desire to set aside the partisanship that has for years defined Washington, President Barack Obama formally announced that Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire was his choice for Commerce Secretary....Tags: John McCain, John Lynch, Upper House, Politics, U.S. Presidential Election (2008)
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Obama's chief performance officer quits
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated Nancy Killefer, whom President Barack Obama had tapped to serve as the federal government's first Chief Performance Officer, has withdrawn her nomination as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. She had failed,....Tags: Politics, National Government, New Mexico, Government, White House
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Gregg quits Obama Cabinet, third loss
The Swampby Frank James and Mark Silva and updated at 5:30 pm Sen. Judd Gregg, the New Hampshire Republican whom President Barack Obama chose for Commerce secretary, has announced he is withdrawing his nomination in a stunning move, giving the new......Tags: Upper House, Politics, National Government, New Mexico, Big 3 Auto Bailout (2008)
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Obama's Commerce secretary joke
The Swampby Mark Silva We hoped to avert any references to Abraham Lincoln today, and perhaps for another 100 years, but President Barack Obama found a way, at the end of a daylong celebration of Lincoln's bicentennial last night, to make......Tags: Trade Policy, Abraham Lincoln, National Government, Judd Gregg, New Hampshire
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Obama's Commerce Sec'y: Gary Locke
The Swampby Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger and updated President Obama is expected to select former Washington state Gov. Gary Locke as commerce secretary, a position that the White House has had a difficult time filling. The president is expected to......Tags: Upper House, Politics, National Government, California, New Mexico
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Gary Locke: Commerce Sec'y nominee
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama today nominated Gary Locke, former governor of Washington, to serve as secretary of commerce. The former two-term Democratic governor who left office in 2005, the nation's first Chinese-American governor when he took...Tags: Global Expansion, Primaries, Economic Policy, Local Elections, Colleges and Universities
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Obama's kickoff is steeped in symbolism
Tribune staff reportersThe last time Barack Obama delivered a formal address in Illinois' state capital, it was to mark the opening of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum where he hailed the 16th president as a man who "did not equivocate or duck or pass the...Tags: Primaries, Local Elections, Chicago, Ethics, Death
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Obama: I'm running for president
Tribune staff reportersU.S. Sen. Barack Obama formally entered the 2008 race for the presidency today, contending he has the experience to know that "Washington must change" and billing himself as the leader who will bring a new generational attitude to address the nation's...Tags: International Military Interventions, Primaries, Iraq, Local Elections, Death
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Face to Face: A Conversation with Donna Shalala
University of Miami president discusses her tenure and her hopes for her "Caines."
Q. UM has relationships up in Palm Beach, Broward counties. What is the university's interest north of Coral Gables?
A. Well, we have always gone north. That is, we...Tags: Colleges and Universities, National Government, Florida State University, Awards and Prizes, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)
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