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If victorious, Obama plans to quickly name his chief of staff, secretary of state, and treasury boss.
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Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the fourth ranking Democrat in the House, is strongly considering an offer from President-elect Barack Obama to serve as White House chief of staff, according to Democratic sources. Obama's offer comes less than 24 hours after he...
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Obama's win is a historic achievement; Republicans figure out where to go from here.
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The Illinois congressman knows how to get things done. But what things, exactly?
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The Chicago congressman and former adviser to President Bill Clinton has not announced his decision. The president-elect is busy putting together his transition team. Reporting from Los Angeles and Chicago -- President-elect Barack Obama today asked Rahm Emanuel, a Chicago congressman, to become his chief of staff as he began to create an administration that has promised to solve the country's woes.
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In the first personnel announcement since he won the presidency, Democrat Barack Obama unveiled the team that will help transition the Democrat into the White House after his landslide electoral win on Tuesday night. The transition from President-elect to the White House is especially important in light of the dire circumstances facing the country, and Obama's team has been at work for month planning for the changing of the guard.
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Rahm Emanuel has an unusual hybrid of high-level experience as a top adviser to President Bill Clinton together with proven expertise as a congressional leader and political strategist.
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ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has offered the White House chief of staff job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. Emanuel, a knowledgeable source tells ABC News, has not yet given his answer. The sharp-tongued, sharp-elbowed, keenly intelligent veteran...
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Obama indicates that he will have several Republicans on his team.
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A look at Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel, expected to become Barack Obama's chief of staff.
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The Illinois congressman, Obama's pick to be White House chief of staff, is best known as something of a Democratic political assassin. Rep. Rahm Emanuel might not appear to be the obvious choice for White House chief of staff for a president-elect who speaks eloquently of setting aside partisan differences and bringing the country together.
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US president-elect Barack Obama has begun the process of forming a new US administration by asking Democratic Congressman Rahm Emanuel, who served in the Clinton administration, to be his White House chief of staff.
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President-elect Barack Obama has tapped Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel to be his White House chief of staff.
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"No one I know is better at getting things done than Rahm Emanuel," says Obama.
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McCain aides trash Palin, Emanuel will be chief of staff, and Republicans worry about young voters.
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There are a lot of Rahm Emanuel stories around town. Here's one of them.
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President-elect Barack Obama chose fellow Chicago Democrat, Representative Rahm Emanuel, as his chief of staff Thursday. The decision marks the first personnel choice by Obama as he looks to fill out his administration. Obama said he chose Emanuel because "no one I know is better at getting things done" than the Illinois representative who is known for his tough guy reputation.
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President-elect Barack Obama chose fellow Chicago Democrat, Representative Rahm Emanuel, as his chief of staff Thursday. The decision, reported by several media outlets, marks the first personnel choice by Obama as he looks to fill out his cabinet. Much attention is being paid to Obama's transition from Senator to President, as he faces crises on several fronts.
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Barack Obama's decision to name Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff ensures that myriad profiles of the man they call "Rahmbo" will be written in the days and weeks to come. Here at The Fix we aim...
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pimg src='http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2008/0811/rahm_emanuel_1105.jpg' align='left' width='75' title='' border='0'/Republicans like to say that Obama is all talk and no action, but his appointment of Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff shows that he knows how to get things done in Washington/pbr clear=allimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/politics/~4/445247410" height="1" width="1"/
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pimg src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/blogs/images/thumbnails/scott_macleod.jpg" align="left" width="75" title="" border="0"/Barack Obama chose Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff not for his Middle East policy expertise but his Beltway experience and savvy. /pbr clear=allimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/time/blogs/~4/447561943" height="1" width="1"/
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by Mark Silva and updated Rep. Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's designated chief of staff, asked how his reputation for rough, partisan political warfare will square with his role in the new president's White House, promised that Obama will set...
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Rahm Emanuel is going back to the West Wing to take over as White House chief of staff, mixing one of Washington's most combustible temperaments with President-elect Barack Obama's celebrated cool, reports the Washington Pos.
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Just about every story written about Rahm Emanuel since Barack Obama selected him to serve as White House chief of staff has described him as the tough Chicago operative who became the consummate Washington insider. But how sensitive will the bulldog at Mr. Obama’s gate be to New York interests? “We’re fortunate to have a president-elect who represents a big state, who lives in a big city, who understands the needs of cities like ours,” Hillary Clinton told The Observer during a conference call on Nov. 11. “I think we are going to have a strong ear in the White House. readmore
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by Mark Silva John Podesta, the bookish co-chairman of President-elect Barack Obama's transition planning, was casting about today for a title for Rahm Emanuel, the hard-charging Chicago congressman whom Obama has designated as his chief of staff. Chief of staff-designate?...
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Rahm Emanuel is his own man, with an identity distinct from his father's. He is not responsible for the actions or opinions of Benjamin Emanuel, a Chicago pediatrician who worked in the 1940s with Irgun, the militant Zionist group that committed acts against Palestinian and British targets that have been widely categorized as terrorism. (In [...]
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The president-elect's choice for chief of staff offered a list of acceptable names, sources say, but there is no indication he tried to cut a deal. Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's choice as White House chief of staff, talked with Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich's administration about who would replace Obama in the U.S. Senate and cited a list of people who would be acceptable, sources said.
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Nancy Pelosi is in an enviable position, the most powerful Democrat in Congress at a time of national ascendancy for her party, but she seems a little nervous. Part of this is her nature. Just like her two-decade climb up the Democratic ranks, Pelosi’s two years as House Speaker have been marked by a style that might best be described as justifiably paranoid. She has relied on a close and tight-lipped circle of loyalists, frozen out those who have crossed her, and made examples of those who have threatened her hegemony. It may sound ugly, but this is how you survive in the U. readmore
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The friendly rapport Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Rep. Rahm Emanuel shared over the years has suddenly become a liability for Emanuel and the new president he will serve as chief of staff.
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The Obama Transition Office has released the report that White House Counsel-to-be Greg Craig regarding contacts between Obama's circle and that of disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
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The incoming presidential chief of staff gives formal notice to the Illinois governor. His surprisingly personal letter doesn't mention Blagojevich's scandal. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), incoming chief of staff to President-elect Barack Obama, will formally resign his House seat Friday.
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Senator John McCain has attacked Senator Barack Obama for his supposed ties to the 1960s radical William Ayers, and is releasing an ad accusing the Democrat of lying.
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