Arne Duncan was nominated to be secretary of education by President-elect Barack Obama and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2009.
Word of Cabinet appointments by President-elect Barack Obama flew fast and furious late Friday afternoon: Sen.
In late 1993, after a brief return stint in Boston, Mr. Bratton was appointed commissioner of the New York City Police Department by Mayor-elect Rudy Giuliani.
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While Kansas is traditionally considered a red state, Democrats are buoyed by President-elect Barack Obama's strong performance there and the prospect that the state's popular Democratic governor, Kathleen Sebelius, may enter the race.
Doubters know that the state-by-state, district-by-district system by which we elect the House distributes the vote to protect incumbents.
Hillary Clinton, if she should be selected by the president-elect to be the nominee for secretary of state, Democratic Party officials said Wednesday.
Obama himself has stated that he believes marriage is between a man and a woman, a view that also happens to be shared by Vice President-elect Joe Biden.
And because Mr. Blagojevich stands accused of trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the president-elect, Mr. Obama's name will be forever linked to the case, even though he isn't accused of wrongdoing.
By comparison, President-elect Barack Obama--the political season's other rock star--placed sixth.
Mrs Merkel congratulated the president-elect by phone and invited him to Berlin to hold talks soon, but she warned the fiscal compact was "not up for grabs".
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The usual suspects are clamoring for the sacking of Donald Rumsfeld, a goal some had sought from shortly after he was first chosen to serve as Secretary of Defense by then-President-elect Bush.
Although indictments may be approved by officials of the Bush administration Justice Department, any trial would be carried out in 2009 by prosecutors under President-elect Barack Obama's Justice Department, which may have a different view of the complex legal issues presented by the case.
If other countries can use the American system to apply pressure on Members of Congress and the executive branch - and even further their agendas by helping elect or defeat candidates and incumbents - then is the United States not compelled to do the same around the world to promote its own interests?
In these prepared remarks provided by his campaign, President-Elect Barack Obama calls himself the unlikeliest presidential candidate.
They can start by respecting the wishes of the president-elect to plan his inauguration as he sees fit.
George W. Bush is surrounded by veteran hawks such as Vice President-elect Cheney and Defense Secretary-designee Donald H.
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They were there to take part in a question and answer session offered by New Hampshire's controversial Anglican Bishop-elect, Gene Robinson - a declared homosexual.
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The only system that fits the bill is the Borda count, proposed by Jean-Charles de Borda in 1770 to elect members to the Academy of Sciences in Paris.
The move sets the stage for the Vatican to hold a conclave to elect a new pope by mid-March, since the traditional mourning time that would follow the death of a pope doesn't have to be observed.
By appointing the former Fed boss, the president-elect is reaching out to Republicans and Wall Street investors who are often sceptical of Democratic economic policies.
K. and instead follow another playbook, one oriented toward the middle class and epitomized by Harry Truman, --the very same approach that almost helped elect his primary rival and new secretary of State.
President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto wants to shake up the sector by opening up state oil monopoly Pemex to more private investment, hoping it will help boost production.
Maryland's Democratic Governor-elect Martin O'Malley favors a law--vetoed by Republican Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
Anonymous Israeli officials, quoted by AP news agency, said the withdrawal would be completed before US President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday.
Although it had no legal standing, the event was the symbolic equivalent of laying down the gauntlet to the president-elect, Felipe Calderon, who won the July 2nd vote by less than 1 percent.
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Lee Myung-bak, South Korea's president-elect who is set to take office on February 25th, was cleared by a special prosecutor of involvement in a financial fraud in 2001.
The U.S.-backed political transition plan calls for regional caucuses in Iraq by the end of May to elect an Iraqi legislature.
On Monday, the president-elect said he intended to create and save 2.5 million US jobs by investing in the national infrastructure.
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