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  Morning Update: National Security Team

  Posted on Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 by campaign2008

  President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden announced the nomination of several additional members of their national security team on Tuesday. Former Clinton administration officials James Steinberg and Jacob Lew are Obama’s picks to serve as deputy secretaries of state under Hillary Clinton. Thomas Donilon is the nominee for deputy national security adviser, and Antony “Tony” Blinken is the nominee for national security adviser to Biden.

  STIMULUS: Biden emphasized on Tuesday that the incoming Obama administration’s planned economic stimulus package will not include earmarks (WSJ).

  This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 at 11:14 am and is filed under Economy, Morning Update, Transition. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

   

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