This is Cong. Ilena Ros-Lehtinen‘s Statement after receiving a call from President-Elect Obama which she thought was a prank caller. “Miami, Florida — Cong. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen thought it was a hoax when President-Elect Barak (sic) Obama called her twice today and she proceeded to hang up on him, twice. “Ros-Lehtinen was working in her South [...]
Melody Barnes was appointed as director of the domestic policy council by President-Elect Barack Obama. Barnes served as executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank in Washington. She also served as chief counsel to Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on the Senate Judiciary Committee for eight years. She [...]
Berkeley economist, Christina Romer will be appointed chairman of the council of economic advisers by President-Elect Barack Obama. Romer will be joining Barack’s economic think tank comprised of Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and Peter Orszag. Christina Romer is currently a professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
