President Elect Obama nominated former Senator Tom Dashle t be Secretary of Health and Human Services on December 11th. On Saturday December 13th he gave the democrats weekly radio address in which he announced that Shaun Donovan will be the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

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President-elect Barack Obama announced key members of his energy and environment team, including Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy; Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator; Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change; and Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change.