Word: sebelius
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...Sebelius was elected governor of Kansas - a state in which registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by a nearly 2-to-1 margin - in 2002. After a first term in which she helped boost education spending while deftly paring a $1.1 billion budget deficit, she won re-election four years later...
...Sebelius boasts a unique political pedigree: She is one-half of the nation's first father-daughter gubernatorial combo. Her father, John Gilligan, served as Ohio's chief executive in the 1970s...
...safe to assume Kathleen Sebelius files flawless tax returns. The popular Kansas governor, who will be introduced on Monday as Barack Obama's pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, steps into the void opened by Tom Daschle's withdrawal from the role amid revelations that he failed to pay some $128,000 in taxes-the latest in an embarrassing series of tax snafus involving Obama's Cabinet nominees. An early convert to the Obama camp and a nascent star in the Democratic party, Sebelius' success guiding a deep-red heartland state vaulted her onto the short list...
...Born in 1948 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sebelius earned a bachelor's degree from Washington, D.C.'s Trinity College and a master's in public administration from the University of Kansas...
...husband, Gary Sebelius, is a federal magistrate judge. (His father, Keith Sebelius, was a prominent Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.) The couple has two sons, Ned and John...