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70 of 360 Policy jobs filled so far! Transition best ever!

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But at a Senate hearing on Thursday about the failed insurance giant American International Group, which has been given federal bail-out funds totalling more than $170 billion, Senator Chris Dodd said the Treasury department had told him no one was available to testify.

"I am not pleased that we don't have someone here from Treasury to explain what their role in this is." Caroline Atkinson, Mr Geithner's choice for undersecretary of international affairs, Caroline Atkinson, also withdrew herself from consideration.

After a transition period that was hailed as one of the smoothest and best organised in the past two decades, Mr Obama has struggled to fill key posts amid signs of chaotic decision making and inadequate vetting.

He has lost two Commerce Secretary nominees – Governor Bill Richardson, who became embroiled in a corruption scandal and Senator Judd Gregg, a Republican who turned against Mr Obama's spending plans.

Nancy Killefer, chosen to be "chief performance officer", pulled out over unpaid taxes while General Anthony Zinni was told he would be ambassador to Baghdad only to learn that a diplomat had been appointed to fill the slot but no one had bothered to tell him.

According to the White House Transition Project, which tracks appointments, there are some 1,200 government jobs that require Senate confirmation about 360 of which are considered policy jobs. Only about 70 of those jobs have been filled so far.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4950518/Three-more-Obama-nominees-withdraw-from-running.html
 

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