After serving on the staff of Sen. James Abourezk (D-SD), Daschle was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, serving eight years.  He is one of the first members of Congress to serve in a Democratic leadership position in his first term of office as a Regional Whip.

Mr. Geithner joined the IMF in September 2001 and was appointed director of PDR in December 2001. Mr. Geithner led the department in the IMF responsible for reviewing and approving the Fund’s financial programs and its assessments of member economies.

Secretary Gates served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1991 until 1993. He is the only career officer in CIA’s history to rise from entry-level employee to Director. Secretary Gates served as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from 1986 until 1989 and as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser at the White House from January 20, 1989, until November 6, 1991, for President George H.W. Bush.

She serves on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee; the Environment and Public Works Committee; the Special Committee on Aging; and she is the first New Yorker ever to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Tens of thousands of North Carolinians are asking congressional offices for tickets to President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration Jan. 20.

In the statement, The Rev. Msgr. Martin T. Laughlin, P.A., Administrator of the Diocese of Charleston, stated the priest—The Rev. Jay Scott Newman—doesn’t speak for the church.

A priest at St. Mary’s Catholic Church In Greenville said his parishioners shouldn’t take Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because of the Democrat’s stance on abortion.

Facing his first few days as president-elect, Barack Obama, in addition to facing a national economic crisis, has already had to issue an apology for suggesting Nancy Reagan held seances in the white house.

A few days before the election, it was learned that Obama’s aunt had been living in Boston for five years—even though she’d been ordered by an immigration judge in 2004 to leave the country. The
judge had rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya.

One of Obama’s first decisions as president-elect was to ask the Illinois congressman to run his White House staff. Emanuel accepted Thursday after struggling over family and political considerations.

Rahm Emanuel has agreed to be Obama’s White House chief of staff.

Rahm Emanuel served as a political and policy aide in the Clinton White House, and he says he knows “something about what it means to a family.“

Complete coverage of Obama’s win of the White House the day after his historic win.

Obama’s win impacts Upstate South Carolina African Americans who lived during the civil rights era. News Channel 7’s Andy Pierrotti talks to one woman who didn’t expect it to happen in her lifetime.

N.C. State police Capt. Jon Barnwell said someone used spray paint to write comments about Obama that bordered on threatening.