Obama names GOP senator to Cabinet

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

WASHINGTON -- In the midst of promoting his $800 billion-plus economic proposal, President Obama chose for his new commerce secretary a Republican senator with such a reputation for fiscal discipline that he once voted to shut down the department.

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