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When President-elect Barack Obama tapped California Democrat Hilda Solis to be his administration's Labor Secretary, union leaders across the country rejoiced. The four-term Congresswoman has spent the better part of two decades championing workers' rights, including the Employee Free Choice Act, a new bill that would make it easier for workers to organize. But some Republicans have taken issue with her legislative approach, deriding her as an unyielding advocate of environmentalists and labor groups. Solis might very well agree with the "unyielding" part: she told the Los Angeles Times in 2000 that compromising "just to keep things...
Perhaps it was his background as a community organizer helping laid-off steel workers find work, or his promises to close the book on discredited trickle-down economics and renegotiate unfair trade deals. Few groups were as happy about the election of Barack Obama as organized labor, which felt it finally had a champion after more than three decades of being marginalized...
...Blair, Barack Obama no doubt saw someone who was, first and foremost, not involved in the Bush intelligence scandals - namely extraordinary renditions, secret prisons, and torture. And while Blair's brief stint at the CIA during the Clinton Administration didn't turn him into a seasoned intelligence operative, he's at least seen the belly of the whale from the inside. (Read more about Obama's White House...
...will fight, I will fight, I will fight until I take my last breath," Blagojevich said to a packed news conference in Chicago's Loop. It was the first formal statement Blagojevich had made since being charged last week with trying to auction off President-Elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, among other alleged offenses...
Take Me to Your Leader. For political junkies who want to get a closer view of President-elect Barack Obama's past (or the ongoing Blagojevich scandal), The James hotel in Chicago has a "City of Hope" package. A guide will take you in the hotel's Audi on a tour of the city, including the Hyde Park neighborhood, which the Obamas' called home, and Millennium Park, where Barack Obama acknowledged his election victory and where you can take a spin around the skating rink. Return to the hotel and warm up with hot chocolate in the Lobby Bar. While...