Joel Brubaker, the 41-year-old chief of staff to Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R, W.Va), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, made money trading in financial-services firms in 2009.

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Obama, who will be inaugurated January 20, started naming key staff members just two days after the election, announcing Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.

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Obama on Thursday named U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois as his chief of staff.

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"We are in some very traditional Republican districts, " said Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the campaign chief for House Democrats.

WSJ: Democrats Expand Majorities in Congress

Olympia Snowe , R-Maine, hosts a fund-raiser for her former chief of staff, Kevin Raye , who is running to succeed Democratic Rep. John Baldacci .

CNN: Primaries leave Democrats wrung out

Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, the bill's chief Democratic sponsor in the House, touted the benefits of legislation that would give Americans sweeping new health care rights and the power to sue health maintenance organization (HMOs) and insurers if the treatment is denied.

CNN: Democrats say Bush trying to sink popular rights bill

The most recent of these to come to light is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin (who also happens to be former Rep. Anthony Weiner's wife).

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Among the prominent conservative names lending their view: former Utah governor and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, Hewlitt-Packard chief executive and former California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida), and actor Clint Eastwood.

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Dianne Feinstein, D-California, over his choice of Leon Panetta to head the CIA, and from Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, over his reported pick of CNN chief medical correspondent and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta as surgeon general.

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