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However, Obama did not come, and his transition team instead sent former Republican Rep. Jim Leach and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to meet with the heads of state. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Obama was expected to address a United Nations global warming summit in Poland in December or allow a representative such as Al Gore to present his ...
Prior to joining the Obama Transition Team, she served as Executive Director of the American Constitution Society, [3] a progressive legal organization. After President Obama's 2011 State of the Union Address, Brown joined the Office of Management and Budget to assist the ambitious effort to draft a government reorganization proposal. [4]
As of November 15, all briefings of the transition team by government were on hold pending the need for incoming chair Mike Pence to sign an agreement with the Obama administration. [ 59 ] On November 16, Trump met with Alabama senator Jeff Sessions , who had been discussed as a possible contender for several cabinet positions. [ 60 ]
Among the people President-elect Barack Obama has appointed to his FCC agency review transition team are Net Neutrality advocates Kevin Werbach, assistant professor of legal studies and business ...
In November 2008, Lux was named to the Obama/Biden Transition team. [6] In that role, he served as an adviser to the Public Liaison on relationships with the progressive community and gave strategic advice on structuring the Office of Public Liaison based on his past experience working on the Clinton/Gore Transition, as well as in the White ...
The 2008 Bush-to-Obama transition was much better, as President Bush was committed to a smooth handoff. Still, Barack Obama and his team openly brawled with Republicans in Congress.
List of persons holding prominent positions within the Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008.. According to an August 2008 statement by Deputy Campaign Manager Steve Hildebrand, the Obama campaign had "large-scale operations in 22 states, medium operations in many others, and small staffs in only a handful of states," [1] with several thousand paid operatives on the ground between ...
The presidential transition period began following Obama's victory in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, though Obama had chosen Chris Lu to begin planning for the transition in May 2008. [7] John Podesta, Valerie Jarrett, and Pete Rouse co-chaired the Obama-Biden Transition Project.