Word: clintone
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Regrettably, a similar Hollywood ending to the recent Senate appointment saga proved elusive. Following Election Day, President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton all resigned their Senate seats. Nepotism, political power plays, and outright corruption sullied the search for their replacements. This should come as no surprise, since gubernatorial appointments to Senate seats are fundamentally undemocratic. They reward famous names, connections, and fundraising ability while denying the citizens of a state the chance to decide who their senator will be. Instead of relying on this outdated process for selecting interim...
While the details about Power’s role remain unclear at this point, she will be required to work closely with Secretary of State Clinton as the senior director for multilateral affairs at the NSC, according to the Associated Press...
...Hillary Clinton's former research director Judd Legum released a bulletin about Steele's controversial record shortly after his election as RNC chair; reports alleged that Steele hired homeless people to pass out campaign flyers that portrayed him as a Democrat, and that he once compared stem cell research to Nazi Holocaust experiments...
...late 1990s, Liebman served as special assistant to the president for economic policy and coordinated the Clinton administration’s social security reform technical working group...
...served as the assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton administration during 1994 and 1995, has been a steadfast supporter of the “key alliance” between the U.S. and Japan, according to Kennedy School professor of international finance Jeffrey A. Frankel...