Barack Obama's Chief of Staff

Posted by: Audiegrl White House Pastry Chef Bill Yosses, center, leads students from River Terrace Elementary School in Washington, D.C., on a tour of the South Grounds of the White House, Oct. 7, 2010. The group toured the White House Kitchen Garden as a part of a program available to local elementary, middle, and high school students. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton) Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Walk step...Read Full Story

Name: Peter Mikami Rouse Age: 64 Occupation: Interim White House Chief Of Staff (previously Senior Advisor to President Obama) Known for: Calm, assertive energy. The man who has, as of October 1, signed on as Rahm Emanuel’s interim replacement as the White House Chief of Staff is no stranger to President Obama, members of the Obama administration, the House or Senate. Pete Rouse, a third-generation sansei son of a Japanese American mother, is a 4-decade veteran of Capitol Hill once known as...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's chief of staff Bill Daley has asked a senior aide to take on greater operational oversight of staff at the White House, a senior administration official said Monday.Daley, who became Obama's top White House adviser earlier this year, would still retain his day-to-day management role.Pete Rouse, a long-time aide to Obama who ran the White House in an interim capacity after the president's first chief of staff Rahm Emanuel stepped down last year...Read Full Story

Obama Moves Quickly to Start Building a Transition Team. In two key early picks, President-elect Barack Obama sought out two of the hardest-hitting veterans of President Bill Clinton’s administration.. PETER BAKER and JEFF ZELENY / The New York Times Obama Exhorts Republicans To Resist Jockeying For White House In 2012 AP sources: Obama chooses Daley as chief of staff The Daily. WaPo: White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of. Washington Over Expiring Bush Tax Cuts. AP...Read Full Story

There is a really great article posted on the Daily Beast concerning the development of the House GOP resistance to the stimulus package. Interesting to note is the power and influence that Rahm Emanuel is deploying. Do we have the CoS position being redefined as Dick Cheney did with the Vice Presidency?The article is written by John Batchelor, a radio host syndicated in New York, San Francisco, DC, and Los Angeles. I have never heard of him before, nor do I know anything about him, however...Read Full Story