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The White House has filled important policy jobs at the two departments essential to President Barack Obama's domestic priorities at a much slower rate than elsewhere in his administration after eight months in charge of the government.
American presidents rewarding top campaign fundraisers with plum ambassadorships has long been common practice for both parties. But should "bundlers" get these jobs? Are they qualified?
President Barack Obama on Saturday moved to fill three top Treasury Department positions, seeking to give Secretary Tim Geithner added manpower at an agency that has been slow to fill vacancies.
Ellen Engleman Conners lost her shot at a second term as President George W. Bush's choice to lead the National Transportation Safety Board after others at the agency accused the political appointee of poor management. But that didn't stop her from winning another government job.
President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose the dean at his alma mater, Harvard Law School, to represent the United States before the Supreme Court.
Day by day, name by name, President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet is taking shape, and other top jobs are being filled.
Day by day, name by name, President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet is taking shape, and other top jobs are being filled.
WASHINGTON — We all know who the new secretary of state will be in president-elect Barack Obama’s administration.
Day by day, name by name, President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet is taking shape, and other top jobs are being filled.
President-elect Barack Obama has picked or is considering an array of Washington insiders and outsiders, including some Republicans, for Cabinet and other top positions, according to Democratic and transition officials. They include:
President-elect Barack Obama has picked or is considering an array of Washington insiders and outsiders, including some Republicans, for Cabinet and other top positions, according to Democratic and transition officials. They include:
Come January, not everyone from the Bush administration will be out of office.
President-elect Obama is weighing an array of Washington insiders and outsiders, including some Republicans, for top administration posts, according to Democratic officials.
Americans will elect not only a president on Tuesday, but also his huge team of aides, advisers and bureaucrats who will help the winner run the federal government for the next four years.
A newspaper reports Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick may have transferred some appointees into civil service positions before he left office.
Kevin Jennings -- Unsafe for America's SchoolsFew Obama administration appointments have been as startling as Education Secretary Arne Duncan's appointment of Kevin Jennings, the homosexual founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), to head the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.
Obama Appointee Kevin Jennings: Fisting And F**k 'em To The Religious Right You can't make this stuff up.
Senate Delays Confirming Illegal Alien Advocate At DOJ Amid growing controversy, the Senate is delaying the confirmation of a renowned illegal immigrant advocate who served on the board of a day laborer center to head a crucial division of the Justice Department.
Congressman wants all 'czars' to testifyRep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) on Wednesday called for President Obama's "czars," or appointed high-level advisers, to testify before Congress about their "authority and responsibilities" in the executive branch.
Less Than Half of Obama's Top Appointees in PlaceOf more than 500 senior policymaking positions requiring Senate confirmation, just 43 percent have been filled.
And Then They Came for Koh ... If mainstream America can't stand up for Harold Koh, we will get precisely the government lawyers we deserve.It's 11:45 a.m.
Pay Up! White House Tells Another AppointeeThe White House told urban czar Adolfo Carrión on Wednesday to pay the architect who did work on his Bronx home more than two years ago.
President Obama's czar system concerns someAs President Obama names more policy czars to his White House team -- high-level staff members who will help oversee the administration's top initiatives -- some lawmakers and Washington interest groups are raising concerns that he may be subverting the authority of Congress and …
Last fall, sometime after the election, I was listening to NPR on the radio. They had a brief story about Bush administration employees gaining appointments to permanent government jobs. It is a process nicknamed "burrowing in".
Obama nominates Republican to head commerce departmentWould this be further evidence of bipartisanship? Looks like it to me...
Philippine Supreme Court full of Arroyo cha-cha operatorsPractically everyone who's not part of the Malacanang Mafia of conmen, plunderers, congressmen you wouldn't buy a used car from, and relics of the martial law period has weighed in with his or her opinion on why there are plans afoot to impeach Chief Justice Reynato Puno.
The Top 43 Appointees Who Helped Make Bush The Worst President EverNext week, "change is coming to America," as President George W. Bush wraps up his tenure as one of the worst American presidents ever. He wasn't able to accomplish such an ignominious feat all by himself, however; he had a great deal of help along the way.
On the campaign trail Obama pitched the idea of change we can believe in, but in the area of agriculture policy it's starting to look like change that agribusiness can count on as more of the same.
For now, Obama's focus is on assembling a team to run the executive branch, and so far there have been few surprises.
Bush Appointees Land Career Science Jobs With Seemingly Unrelated Backgrounds The president of the nation's largest general science organization yesterday sharply criticized recent cases of Bush administration political appointees gaining permanent federal jobs with responsibility for making or administering scientific policies, saying the result would be …
Death by QuestionnaireBarack Obama's presidential transition recently rolled out its 63-item questionnaire for prospective nominees. It is just the first of many questionnaires the Obama appointees must face.
Bush-o-crats Burrow InSome of Bush's political appointees aren't about to give up their jobs over a mere presidential election.
The CIA's Top LawyerA CIA lawyer who played a key role in approving some of the agency's most controversial post-9/11 operations—including the use of interrogation techniques that have been criticized as torture—is scheduled to be grilled in public next week when he appears before the Senate I …
Letter Criticizes Judicial NomineeTwenty retired military officers say they have "deep concern" about the fitness of the Defense Department's general counsel, William J. Haynes II, to be a federal judge because he approved coercive techniques to interrogate terror suspects.
Bush's Appointees Not As Diverse as Clinton'sPresident Bush's crop of political appointees includes fewer women and minorities than did President Bill Clinton's at comparable points in their presidencies, according to a new report by House Democrats.
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