Allan Katz of Tallahassee, a Democratic Party activist and early supporter of President Barack Obama, has been nominated ambassador to Portugal. ...more

November 30, 2009

The Senate today confirmed Regina Benjamin to be the U.S. surgeon general, elevating a well-known Alabama family physician to be the nation's top doctor. ...more

October 29, 2009

Please Hispanic community, let's not play the identity politics game over Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination. She should be confirmed or rejected on the merits of her record, not ethnic background. ...more

June 1, 2009

Florida emergency management director Craig Fugate is President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ...more

March 4, 2009

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Saturday accepted President Barack Obama's request to become his Health and Human Services secretary, stepping into a central role in the administration's ambitious effort to overhaul the nation's health care system. ...more

March 1, 2009

A White House source says Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is President Barack Obama's choice for secretary of health and human services. ...more

February 28, 2009

Anyone who believes that Tom Daschle, who by the way has an ego as big as a semi, willingly withdrew his nomination, well, I have a bridge to sell you. It is obvious that the firestorm caused by the Geithner tax cheating exposure and Obama's subsequent holding fast, that nomination could not be duplicated. The Daschle nomination was a no-win situation growing worse daily by every newsroom definition. ...more

February 9, 2009

I am old enough to know that it is more important to observe what a leader, or anyone for that matter, does rather than what he says, especially for politicians. ...more

February 7, 2009

On the rockiest day of his young administration, President Barack Obama did what surely made him happy for a while. He left. ...more

February 4, 2009

Bill Richardson has withdrawn his nomination to be Barack Obama's commerce secretary, according to an Associated Press report. ...more

January 4, 2009