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Penny Pritzker to face key senators for Commerce bid
With Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker set to be grilled by senators Thursday at her Commerce secretary confirmation hearing, Bill Daley feels her pain. Daley, a son and brother of Chicago mayors, faced his own confirmation hearing in 1997 before he...Tags: Politics, Career and Workplace, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Dick Durbin
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Hey! I made 'Best of the Web today!'
Change of SubjectOn the Bulworth thread, a commenter asks if I'll be responding to James Taranto's blog item at the Wall Street Journal that mentions me. A bit. Here's the relevant passage and a few subsequent passages with my comments. There's been...... -
Amid damage control efforts, White House listens to outside advice
Reuters* Top Obama advisers met with about a dozen strategists * Talked about how to move forward from three scandals * On Friday, Obama to talk about education, economy By Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Senior White House...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Denis R. McDonough, Politics, Taxation, U.S. Congress
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News Corp. hires Toni Cook Bush to oversee lobbying after split
News Corp. has hired a D.C. heavyweight to handle its lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill after it becomes primarily a newspaper publishing company. Antoniette "Toni" Cook Bush will join News Corp. next month as its executive vice president and global head...Tags: Federal Communications Commission, Satellite and Cable Service, Politics, Media Industry, U.S. Senate
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Obama nominates Penny Pritzker, Mike Froman to his economic team
WASHINGTON – President Obama praised Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker for her commitment to American workers on Thursday morning as he nominated her as his next Commerce secretary. In a Rose Garden announcement, Obama listed Pritzker’s...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Hyatt Hotels Corp., Penny Pritzker, White House, Politics
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White House to nominate new budget director
WASHINGTON – As he prepares for more spending battles with Congress, President Obama plans to nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, head of the Walmart Foundation, as his next budget director, the White House said Sunday. A former deputy budget...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Charity
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Will Penny Pritzker become the next U.S. commerce secretary?
In late 2009, President Barack Obama appeared on "60 Minutes" and said "fat-cat bankers" were smothering his efforts to craft new rules for Wall Street. As soon as the reforms cleared Congress six months later, the president's top advisers launched a...
Tags: Gaming, Investments, LaSalle Bank, U.S. Senate, Rahm Emanuel
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Obama's lean into GOP territory
Who are these guys? Barack Obama and his agents are looking more and more like Mitt Romney and the Republicans that Team Obama maligned to win the presidential election. I'm not just talking about last week's gone-viral Oval Office photo of senior...Tags: The Washington Post, FedEx Corporation, MSNBC (tv network), Satellite and Cable Service, Al Gore
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Obama adviser hits South Side shops
Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama who grew up in Chicago, visited two South Side stores Saturday afternoon as part of a nationwide effort to support small businesses during the holiday shopping season. Jarrett stopped by...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Barack Obama, Small Business Saturday, Business, Kenwood
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Executive Profile: Martin Nesbitt, the first friend
Chicago businessman Martin Nesbitt will sit on the dais in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday as his best friend is inaugurated president of the United States. The two men — successful African-American leaders who share a record of high...
Tags: Richard M. Daley, Jeremiah Wright, U.S. Senate, Salt, Rahm Emanuel
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First lady to attend slain girl's funeral
The first lady, governor and mayor will attend Hadiya Pendleton's funeral Saturday, but the family of the slain teenager is determined to hold a service that looks past politics and celebrates the life of a 15-year-old girl lost to Chicago street...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Human Interest, Rahm Emanuel, Gun Control, Laura Bush
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Hadiya Pendleton funeral: Joyous memories, bitter facts about gun violence
The funeral for Hadiya Pendleton on Saturday was a celebration of her life, just as her parents had wanted. But along with those moments of joyful remembrance, there was bitter awareness of the street violence that took her away. In the front row,...
Tags: Judges, U.S. Congress, Rahm Emanuel, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice
May 23, 2013
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Nov 25, 2012
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Feb 9, 2013
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