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The President-elect’s plan
Last Thursday, President-elect Barack Obama gave a major speech outlining his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. We asked some of the leading members of the Transition's policy teams to sit down and talk a bit about it -- why it's necessary, how it will work, and how we'll make sure it's as ef …
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Video: Christina Romer explains a new report about job creation
Christina Romer, the Chair-designate for the Council of Economic Advisers, discusses a new report about what kinds of jobs and which types of workers will benefit from the proposed American Recovery Act. Learn more about the three to four million new jobs that could be created by reading the report …
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Turning around unemployment
The high unemployment numbers released this week rattled the country, as anxiety about the deepening recession hit home to more and more American families. President-elect Obama's Weekly Address responds with an urgent call for immediate and dramatic action to get our economy working again. The Pres …
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Transition Co-Chair Podesta urges DTV deadline extension
In a letter released yesterday, Transition Co-Chair John D. Podesta urged Congressional leaders to reconsider and extend the date by which consumers must outfit their television sets for digital broadcasting (DTV). The mandated switch from analog to digital reception, originally scheduled for Februa …
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Open for Questions Round 2: Response
When we closed out the first round of Open for Questions with around 20,000 people participating, 10,000 questions submitted, and 1,000,000 votes on which we should answer, we were thrilled. But we were also concerned that the splash of unveiling this new tool meant that would be the high-water mark …
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Obama announces Panetta and Blair for intel posts
"Good intelligence is not a luxury – it is a necessity," President-elect Obama said this morning as he announced Admiral Dennis Blair as his choice to be Director of National Intelligence and Leon Panetta as his choice to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. "Here in Washington....We have lea …
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Obama announces Kaine as new DNC Chair (Update: Video)
President-elect Barack Obama today announced Virginia Governor Tim Kaine as his choice to be the new chair of the Democratic National Committee. The President-elect made the announcement this afternoon at DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C. See pictures and video from the announcement .mp4 format a …
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Sen. Daschle calls for “paradigm shift” during confirmation hearing
Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Tom Daschle appeared before a Senate confirmation hearing this morning and called for bold changes in the way Americans and their government think about health care. "I think we need to change the paradigm in this country on health," Secretary-designate …
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Dramatic action (Update 2: Video)
"The time has come to build a 21st century economy in which hard work and responsibility are once again rewarded," President-elect Obama said in a speech this morning, making the case for urgent action on an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. The plan will save or create 3 million jobs by doub …
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Presidents past, present, and future
President-elect Barack Obama met at the White House today with President George W. Bush and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. See pictures from the meeting below.
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Inside the Transition: Technology, Innovation and Government Reform
The Obama Administations commitment to reform and transparency is embodied by the one of the Transitions most dynamic groupsthe TIGR (Technology, Innovation and Government Reform) Team. The experts who serve in TIGR advocated for some of our most innovative features on Change.govincluding the Citize …
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From Lady Liberty to renewable energy
Just a few days before his inauguration as the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama stopped in Bedford Heights, Ohio, to visit the Cardinal Fastener factory there. In his remarks, President-elect Obama pointed out that the companys roots in the country go deepits bolts appear in both th …
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Our democratic tradition
In his final weekly address before assuming office, President-elect Barack Obama speaks about the upcoming Inauguration activities, a tradition at the heart of our democracy. This years inauguration will be the most open and accessible in history. Thousands of people will come togethernot just in th …
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Wrapping up the Citizen’s Briefing Book
Every day, the President receives books filled with facts and recommendations to be considered while crafting and enacting policies. The Citizens Briefing Booka project that has enabled everyday Americans to share their expertise and insight with President Obamahas been a tremendous success so far. …
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Citizen’s Briefing Book: Brian Deese reacts
Browsing through the Citizen's Briefing Book, Transition Economic policy team member Brian Deese echoed the importance of an idea posted by a visitor to the site. "The commentor is completely right," Deese said. "Figuring out ways to help small businesses pursue new, cutting-edge areas of our econom …
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Inside the Transition: More behind-the-scenes videos from the Office of Public Liaison
On Wednesday, we put up videos from our Office of Public Liaisons meetings with women small business owners, LGBT and youth groups. Today were adding meetings with Asian American/Pacific Islanders and Hispanic groups to the series. The Transition has been an opportunity to get feedback from people f …
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Citizen’s Briefing Book: Tom Daschle reacts
The Citizens Briefing Book is important to us. And we know it will be important to you, as well. Thats what Tom Daschle, Secretary-designate of Health and Human Services, had to say after sitting down to read through some of the top rated ideas and comments in our new feature. The Citizens Briefing …
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Citizen’s Briefing Book: Dr. Steven Chu reacts
In the upcoming Obama administration, Dr. Steven Chu will lead the charge to find solutions to the growing energy problems we face. Dr. Chu has been following the comments and ideas in the Citizens Briefing Book from Americans who understand the scope of these problems, and who are offering bold sol …
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Citizen’s Briefing Book: Arne Duncan reacts
Working collectively, together with the President-elect, we have the chance to do something extraordinary. Thats just part of the reaction we got from talking with Secretary-designate of Education Arne Duncan about the Citizens Briefing Book project now underway on the site. Mr. Duncan adds an insid …
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Vice President-elect Biden returns to D.C. from fact-finding trip
Vice President-elect Joe Biden returned to Washington D.C. today and toured the Transition offices with President-elect Barack Obama. They were joined by Armed Services Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who recently traveled with Vice President-elect Biden to Kuwait, Pakistan, Afghanista …
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