| Obama's pick to lead on health care gets hearing (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 03:28 AM CST  AP - Showing the emphasis that some lawmakers are putting on health care issues this year, former Sen. Tom Daschle will be the first of President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet choices to undergo a hearing.
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| Congress meets to count electoral votes (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 03:33 AM CST  AP - The House and Senate are coming together in a centuries-old tradition to count the electoral votes from the November election and formally declare that Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States.
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON: GOP lays down marker on Holder (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 03:36 AM CST  AP - Eric Holder Jr., President-elect Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, brings to his confirmation hearing next week a dream resume and a bull's-eye target with his picture in the middle.
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| Senate Democrats yield to Obama, retreat on Burris (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 01:21 AM CST  AP - Senate Democrats beat a hasty retreat Wednesday from their rejection of Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama's successor, yielding to pressure from Obama himself and from senators irked that the standoff was draining attention and putting them in a bad light. Burris said with a smile he expected to join them "very shortly."
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| Dems face first stimulus battle (Politico) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 07:18 PM CST Politico - It was only a matter of time until Democrats faced their first stimulus battle. |
| Feds say inauguration attractive terrorist target (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 01:30 AM CST  AP - The upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama is an attractive target for international and domestic terrorists, but U.S. intelligence officials have no information about specific threats to the Jan. 20 event.
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| Richardson adviser worked for firm feds probing (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 10:36 PM CST  AP - One of Gov. Bill Richardson's close friends and advisers worked as a consultant for the California firm at the center of a federal pay-to-play probe that derailed the governor's appointment as commerce secretary.
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| Israelis arrive in Egypt for cease-fire talks (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 04:08 AM CST  AP - Israeli representatives arrived in Cairo Thursday for Egyptian-brokered talks on a cease-fire proposal after the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on action to end the escalating crisis in Gaza.
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| Bridges, streets being closed for inauguration (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 10:23 PM CST  AP - Police are blocking off all bridges crossing the Potomac River into Washington and a huge chunk of downtown when Barack Obama takes the oath of office Jan. 20, securing the largest area of the nation's capital for any inauguration.
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| Obama's performance czar has tried to improve IRS (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 03:37 AM CST  AP - Nancy Killefer, the management consultant chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to make federal agencies work better for the public, has a lot of experience trying to improve the agency taxpayers love to hate, the Internal Revenue Service.
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| Shooting movie takes stab at Taiwan ex-president (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 02:56 AM CST  Reuters - A film about the election-eve gun attack on Taiwan's recently indicted ex-president Chen Shui-bian will debut on the island this week, where it is expected to reignite debate about the controversial 2004 shooting.
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| Obama to unveil stimulus spending as deficit hits new high (AFP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 02:47 AM CST  AFP - President-elect Barack Obama was to flesh out details of his economic stimulus plan Thursday, after warning that dramatic action is needed to shrink a record trillion-dollar US budget deficit.
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| Obama to name 'soft power' Nye for Japan role: report (AFP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 02:04 AM CST  AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama plans to name influential academic Joseph Nye, best known for coining the phrase "soft power," as ambassador to Japan, a newspaper said Thursday.
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| Obama taps spending watchdog, eyes Social Security (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 01:19 AM CST  AP - Pointing with concern to "red ink as far as the eye can see," President-elect Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to tackle out-of-control Social Security and Medicare spending and named a special watchdog to clamp down on other federal programs even as he campaigned anew to spend the largest pile of taxpayer money in history to revive the sinking economy.
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| Obama to lay out case for stimulus in speech (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2009 12:19 AM CST  Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama will call for quick action on a fiscal stimulus package in a speech on Thursday aimed at reassuring Americans that he is determined to stem the economic crisis.
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| Obama to revamp counterterrorism efforts: report (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 10:14 PM CST  Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama will revamp the way the U.S. government coordinates counterterrorism efforts, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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| Paulson says Obama will decide on rescue spending (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 10:12 PM CST  Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama will decide how to spend the remaining half of a $700 billion economic rescue package, a top Bush administration official said on Wednesday, while a key Democratic lawmaker outlined his vision of how new rescue funds should be spent.
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| Obama's 'Hope' portrait goes to Smithsonian (AP) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 08:46 PM CST  AP - Even before he takes office, President-elect Barack Obama's image will become part of the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery, the museum announced Wednesday.
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| Cyclists prepare for Obama inauguration (AFP) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 08:23 PM CST  AFP - Cyclists have launched a campaign to boost bike use for Obama's inauguration on January 20, expected to draw record crowds in the capital and block traffic in and around the city.
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