In 2008, she worked for Vice President Biden in various capacities, travelling with him as his Issues Director during the general election campaign and serving as his Deputy Chief of Staff and Policy Director in the U.S. Senate -- where she managed domestic and economic policy development and legislative initiatives -- as well as his principal domestic policy advisor during his own Presidential campaign.

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Yesterday, the White House Rural Council hosted a Native American Food and Agriculture Roundtable Discussion, bringing together tribal leaders and experts on Native American agricultural economic development with Administration officials from the White House Domestic Policy Council, National Economic Council, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Council on Environmental Quality, and federal agency partners including the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Commerce, Treasury, and the Small Business Administration.

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China is in the stage of its economic development where it needs, and wants, to increase domestic demand for its products, and move away from dependence on exports.

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It puts Chinese military modernization in a much larger context that talks about China's economic development, trade policies, foreign policies, China's domestic problems.

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This not only reduces the creative potential to support economic development in the country, but accentuates capital flight and reduces domestic consumption.

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As a member of the technology-based economic development community in Northeast Ohio, I am excited about what this project could mean for secure, domestic energy production.

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