Obama Appointees

Friday Talking Points -- Obama Picking His Fights

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.07.2012

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Obama is basing a large part of his campaign on what he can manage to accomplish without dealing with the congressional gridlock, and this is quite likely a winning political strategy.

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Senate Moves To Free Presidential Appointees Held Hostage By Confirmation Process

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 08.22.2011

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WASHINGTON — Many would-be federal office holders would be freed from nomination limbo with legislation to exempt some 200 presidential appointe...

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Quiet Deal On Obama Judicial Nominees Unfolds In Senate After Prolonged GOP Blockade

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — After a monthslong blockade, Senate Republicans have agreed to let at least 19 of President Barack Obama's non-controversial judici...

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Obama's Openly Gay Appointees Smash Record

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Less than halfway through his first term, President Barack Obama has appointed more openly gay officials than any other president i...

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Obama Judicial Appointees BLOCKED By GOP: President Getting Fewer Nominees Confirmed Than Nixon

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Oba...

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Obama Appointee May Have Bashed President In Online Forums

ABC News | Rick Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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"On a Washington Post blog, djlndc wrote last February, "the leftist media [are] covering for Obama -- just like during the campaign." [...] Last mont...

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After Waiting 14 Months Obama Finally Chooses To Show Up, Govern

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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After being in office for 14 months President Obama is finally choosing to begin to govern the country. Today, for example, he finally decided it would be a good idea to put a few people into vacant offices.

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DOJ Appointments: The Case for Dawn Johnsen's Confirmation

Victor Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dawn Johnsen's appointment is a litmus test for the Senate confirmation process and for the recharged Obama political operation.

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The Case for Recess Appointing Bernanke

Victor Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama should announce plans to circumvent Senate obstruction and recess appoint Ben Bernanke as Fed Chair while the Senate debates whether to hold a timely confirmation vote.

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Amanda Simpson, Transgender Candidate, Appointed To Commerce Post

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama has appointed Amanda Simpson, a transgender woman, to be the Senior Technical Adviser to the Commerce Department. "I'm truly honored ...

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Obama Naming Hispanics To Top Posts At Record Pace

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI — President Barack Obama is on track to name more Hispanics to top posts than any of his predecessors, drawing appointees from a wide rang...

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Obama Has Fewer Than Half of His Top Appointees In Place

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As President Obama tries to turn around a summer of setbacks, he finds himself still playing without most of his own team. Seven months ...

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FBI Raids Obama Technology Chief's Former Office, Worker Arrested

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — An aide to President Barack Obama is on leave from his White House job after the FBI raided his old District of Columbia government...

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Phil Bredesen: Health And Human Services Secretary?

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Few governors know the pitfalls of soaring health costs better than Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, which helps explain why President Barack Obama is re...

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A Team of Zombies, and Zombies Defending Zombies

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's national security team includes not a single opponent of the Iraq War. It is chock full of Bush administration political appointees who are -- somehow -- being held over.

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Obama Foreign Policy Transition Criticized For Zinni Mess: "Amateurish"

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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Democratic foreign policy hands say that a senior Marine general's public frustration with Obama's top aides is a symptom of a national security trans...

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Obama Issues New Vetting Standards!

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011

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New Vetting Standards: 6. Must not display prominently in their offices the slogan, "Only the little people pay taxes."

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Tammy Duckworth: Obama's Assistant Veterans Affairs Secretary

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Tammy Duckworth, the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs director, was nominated by President Barack Obama on Tuesday to serve ...

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Chris Hill Named Ambassador To Iraq

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Hill has been named as the next ambassador to Iraq and will oversee a crucial moment for the nascent democracy, following provincial elections t...

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Holder To GOP: I Won't Prosecute "Enhanced Interrogations"

Washington Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama's choice to run the Justice Department has assured senior Republican senators that he won't prosecute CIA officers or political appoin...

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McCain Flipflops: Votes Against Geithner

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, the Senate confirmed former New York Federal Reserve president Timothy Geithner as the new Treasury Secretary with a vote of 60 to 34. Geit...

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Pentagon No. 2 Could Earn $500K Lobbying Pentagon

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The man nominated to be the Pentagon's second-in-command could make at least a half-million dollars next month with vested stock he...

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Obama's Regulation Czar Nominee Sunstein Faces Scrutiny

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein, a widely admired intellectual and friend of President Obama, has spent years delving into the obscure i...

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Obama Makes a Bad Choice, America Trembles

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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I wish Obama had not named William Lynn the Deputy Secretary of Defense. It was a wrong decision. Though however wrong it was, it's a quality appointment that aids America.

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Specter Will Vote To Confirm Holder

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Eric Holder's confirmation as the first African-American attorney general was assured Tuesday when Sen. Arlen Specter, the top Repu...

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