Above: Pre-election Obama makes a slightly smoother call.WASHINGTON (CNN) –(CNN) — A Florida congresswoman – convinced she was being prank-called by a Barack Obama sound-alike – hung up on the actual president-elect Wednesday.Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was told by an aide that Obama wanted to speak with her. According to a statement released by her [...]


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Oprah hit the trail for Obama during the primary season.(CNN) – Oprah Winfrey is heading to Washington.The talk show host told Access Hollywood Tuesday night that she will tape her inauguration week shows in the nation’s capital, and has rented the Kennedy Center’s lush Opera House – which seats roughly 2,300 — to serve as [...]


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Biden was told Wednesday that a WMD attack is ‘more than likely’ somewhere in the world before 2013.WASHINGTON (CNN) – Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security-designate Janet Napolitano received a bi-partisan commission briefing Wednesday on potential attacks involving weapons of mass destruction. The commission’s chairman, former Democratic Sen. Bob Graham, didn’t mince [...]


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Americans are happy with Obama's Cabinet choices so far.WASHINGTON (CNN) — A new national poll suggests that Americans think President-elect Barack Obama’s getting it right when it comes to his Cabinet picks, especially when it comes to Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates.Seventy-five percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey approve of Obama’s [...]


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Gates is pressing Obama to double the United State's foreign aid commitment.(CNN) – Microsoft founder Bill Gates told CNN Wednesday he hopes President-elect Barack Obama and Congress immediately craft a wide-ranging stimulus package to help jump-start the nation’s sputtering economy, and double the United State’s commitment to foreign aid.”Clearly we need a stimulus that doesn’t [...]


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Sanford was elected RGA chairman last month in Miami.WASHINGTON (CNN) – The chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association wrote to President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday, urging him to steer clear of industry bailouts and pressing for conservative solutions to the ailing economy.In the letter, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford thanked Obama for taking time to [...]


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Obama officially named Richardson Commerce Secretary Wednesday. WASHINGTON (CNN) – President-elect Barack Obama announced New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his pick for secretary of commerce on Wednesday, calling him a “leading economic diplomat for America.”"I know that Bill will be an unyielding advocate for American business and American jobs, at home and around the [...]


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Little ventured, nothing lost for cautious president-elect; Chambliss’ victory, decisive as it was, maintained the status quo for Republicans.

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The latest debate in Washington: Does Richardson look better with or without a beard?(CNN) - Gov. Bill Richardson showed up to his press conference with President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday morning without the beard he has been sporting since dropping out of the presidential race in January, sparking his new boss to tell reporters he [...]


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Watch Laura Bush show off the White House Christmas tree. (CNN) – It’s a red, white, and blue Christmas this year in the White House.First lady Laura Bush showed off the executive mansion’s Christmas tree and its patriotic trimmings Wednesday on CNN’s American Morning. Among the decorations: an ornament featuring President-elect Barack Obama.In a CNN [...]


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