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President Trump took to his favorite social media platform to post an image showing him welcomeCabinet members to the White House for their first meeting.Seema Verma confirmed as Trumprsquo CMS direct botella stanley orVice President Mike Pence sat across the table from Mr. Trump.The tweet reads: Proud to welcome our great Cabinet members to the@WhiteHousethis afternoon with@VPPence. Proud to welcome our great Cabinet members to the @WhiteHouse this afternoon with @VP Pence. pic.twitter/nwnSqk8wSTmdash; Pres stanley quencher ident Trump @POTUS March 13, 2017 White House press secretary Sean Spicer also marked another moment with Mr. Trumprsquo Cabinet as they watched him sign an executive order aimed at cutting costs of the federal government. .@POTUS w his cabinet watching, signed an exec order that requires thorough exam of every executive department agency pic.twitter/ugjgvCGAfymdash; Sean Spicer @PressSec March 13, 2017 Mr. Trump used his personal twitter handle, @realDonaldTrump, to emphasize that four seats on his Cabinet were empty because Senate Dems are delaying, he wrote. The four members of Mr. Trumprsquo Cabinet awaiting confirmation include nominees for agriculture secretary, labor secretary, Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. trade representative.In the same Cabinet meeting on Monday, Spicer posted this alternate picture angle to Twitter: stanley bottles .@POTUS held his first cabinet meeting today; di Kzrn Senate Democrats fight drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
CBS From CBS News Scott Conroy: LANCASTER, PA. - John McCain is an unabashed Abba fan. Mitt Romney likes Roy Orbison and The Eagles. But both of these former rivals for the stanley cup Republican nomination shared one thing in common when it comes to music: they have featured an almost identical rotation of songs at their campaign rallies.Having covered the Romney campaign for five months, I eventually reached the point where every note of Rascal Flatts Life Is A Highway and Elvis Presley s A Little Less Conversation was as familiar to me as each line of Romney s stump speech. So I couldn t help but feel a bit of deacute;jagrave; vu as I jumped on the McCain-Palin campaign over the past couple of days and was treated to repeated renditions mdash; not only of those two songs mdash; but also Van Halen s Right Now and Brooks and Dunn s Only In America, both of which were staples on the Romney trail.I realize that certain songs have the ability to excite a crowd better than others REM s Everybody Hurts would probably be a poor choice for any candidate trying to fire up his supporters . But it seems as though the list of acceptable political rally jams may be countable on two hands. Is there some sort of focus group that has narr stanley canada owed down the list of appropriate songs to be played at a rally It s something to stanley cup think about the next time you re listening to U2 s Beautiful Day.

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Former national security adviser Sandy Berger, who helped craft President Bill Clinton s second-term foreign policy and later got in trouble over mishandling classified documents, has died.That word comes from his consulting firm, Albright Stonebridge Group. Our country is stronger because of Sandy s deep and abiding commitment to public service, and th stanley thermos ere are countless people whos stanley cup e lives he changed for the better, ASG co-chair and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said in a statement from the firm. I am certainly one of them. He was one of my dearest friends and among the wisest people I have ever met. Berger died Wednesday. He was 70 years old and in ill health.The cause of death was not immediately available. President Obama commented Wednesday on Berger s devotion to strengthening American leadership in an uncertain world. Around the globe, families and children are living healthier, more secure lives because, as a private citizen, Sandy was a humanitarian who helped the world respond to crises and feed the hungry, the president said in a statement. I m grateful to Sandy because, as President, I ve benefited personally from his advice and counsel. Our thoughts are with Sandy s beloved family, including his wife Susan, his children Deborah, Alexander and Sarah, and five cherished grandchildren. May they find some comfort in knowing that the America he loved is stronger becau stanley cup becher se of his service. Berger was Whit Gffr The Drive: Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman rising
Dotty Lynch, Beth Lester, Allison Davis, Lucy Kafanov, David Berlin and Allen Alter from the CBS News Political and Campaign 04 Units have the latest political news from Washington and from the trail.Friday s Headlines* Florida: Nader or Not * Ad Wars Continue* Bush Has a Busy Weekend* Cheney Quick on the Draw* Kerry s Halliburton Day* Is Edwards Taking Mean Lessons * Bush and Kerry Think Military Vote Is Cri stanley cup nz tical* Election Observers to the U.S.Florida: Nader or No Nader The Florida Supreme Court held oral arguments Friday morning in the appeal case of Ralph Nader s placement on Florida s general election ballot. Nader is trying to gain access to Florida s November 2nd ballot as the Reform Party s candidate. A lower court in Florida had ruled that the Reform party is not a legitimate party and Ralph Nader s name should be stricken from the ballot. The Florida Supreme Court, the same court that was intimately involved in the 2000 election recount, must hand down i stanley drink bottle ts ruling by the end of the day Friday since Saturday is the deadline for mailing absentee ballots overseas with or without Nader s name.In 2000, Ralph Nader ran for president in Florida as the Green Party candidate. He received some 97,000 votes. In the past two weeks, Nader has been on and off Florida s ballot. Friday s court action is an effort by the Nader team to regain access for a third time. In a conversation w stanley vattenflaska ith CBS News, Nader spokesman Kevin Zeese said, T

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce that he s running for president Thursday, a spokesperson confirmed to CBS News. The long-anticipated declaration makes de Blasio the 24th person and third mayor stanley website angling for the job in 2020. He plans to head to Iowa Thursday night and South Carolina over the weekend to campaign.De Blasio represents more people mdash; 8.6 million in New York City mdash; than several of the governors running. But only 36 percent of New Yorkers say they have a favorable opinion of him, according to arecent pollfrom Quinnipiac University.The mayor, who was elected to a second term in 2017, has stumbled and faced political defeats as he has flirted with a presidential run. A press conference resembling a campaign event on the NYC Green New Deal that the mayor held in Trump Tower turned to chaos as supporters of President stanley deutschland Trump heckled him,CBS New Yorkreported. And earlier this year, the mayor faced criticism after Amazon pulled out of aprojectthat it said would have brought 25,000 jobs to New York. De Blasio had championed Amazon s move to the city.De Blasio s predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, was also rumored as a potential 2020 candidate buts stanley cup aid in Marchthat he would not run. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-9e087e82-60a6-4e78-b7cd-1e2964c3514f, right-rail-recirc-item--id-9e087 Bnnw Will Age Be Just A Number In 08
ALLERGIC REACTION ....Apparently Franco-Americans relations still aren t quite what they could be:The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, on holiday in the US, attended an informal family picnic at George Bush s retreat in Maine o stanley becher n Saturday, sharing burgers in the name of Franco-US relations. But his wife was unexpectedly absent, blaming a severe throat ailment that prevented her making the one-hour trip from the Sarkozys rented villa in New Hampshire.The Bushes were sympathetic. But the fact that Mrs Sarkozy was spotted shopping with friends on both Friday and Sunday raised eyebrows in stanley flask France. Ceacute;cilia has set a new record for making a swift recovery, a news reader said dryly on France Inter radio today.Maybe she just doesn t like hamburgers stanley kubek ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8cae646-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8cae646-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8cae646-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Special counsel Robert Mueller is accusing President Trump s former campaign chairman of secretly paying former European politicians to lobby on behalf of Ukraine. The new allegation against Paul Manafort comes in a n stanley cups ewly unsealed indictment made public Friday.The indictme stanley termohrnek nt followed a guilty plea by Manafort s longtime business associate who also helped on the Trump campaign, Rick Gates.The indictment accuses Manafort of paying the former politicians, informally known as the Hapsburg group, to appear to be independent analysts when in fact they were paid lobbyists. Some of the covert lobbying took place in the U.S. The indictment says the group was managed by a former European chancellor. Court papers accuse Manafort of using offshore accounts to pay the group more than 2 million euros.Gates guilty plea could be concerning for Manafort, as he has agreed to cooperate with Mueller s probe. Mueller is investigating Russian election meddling and any ties to Trump associates. Last week, Mueller also filed charges against 13 Russians, alleging they interfered in the 2016 presidential election with a massive misinformation campaign. Gates pleaded guilty Friday to two counts -- the first count, conspiring against the U.S., comes fr stanley cups uk om the original October indictment of Gates and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Gates admitted that while he worked for the firm Davis Manafort Inc. DMI , he helped Manafort defraud the U.S. Qfib Unlawful immigrants make up smaller -- not larger -- share of U.S. workforce
CBS Moderate Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, who opposed President Obama s budget because he objected to its levels of spending, suggested on Friday s edition of Washington Unplugged that he and newly Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter will on occasion be in the penalty box together because their votes will not always match those made by other members of the Democratic caucus. If Al Franken comes on board and gives the Democrats a filibuster proof majority, he said, there will be 60 members of the caucus, not an 60 automatic votes. Having Arlen there, maybe I ll have somebody to share the penalty box with me from time to time, Nelson q stanley quencher uipped.The senator later told host Bob Schieffer he was not entirely serious. stanley mug I m more joking about the penalty box, I m never in the penalty box, Nelson said. People in our caucus, the people of Nebraska, know that I m an independent-minded person, and that s one of the rea stanley cups sons I think they ve sent me there, it s one of the reasons I get along with my colleagues in the Democratic caucus. Watch the interview below. It opens this week s edition of Washington Unplugged, CBSNews s 15-minute Web-only show, which also includes a journalist roundtable on Specter s move to the Democratic Party and a chat with the New York Times reporter who asked Mr. Obama an enchanting question at Wednesday s press conference. ponent--type

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Washington mdash; Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders was declared to be in good health by his primary physician and fit for the presidency by two cardiologists after suffering a heart attack in early October.Sanders, a senator from Vermont, released letters from the three doctors Monday, following through on his plan to disclose his health records by the end of the year.Dr. Brian Monahan, the attending physician to Congress, said in one letter that Sanders, 78, is in good health and has been engaging vigorously in the rigors of your campaign, travel, and other scheduled activities without any limitation. With a height of 6 feet and a weight of 174 pounds, Sanders has been treated over the years for gout, hyp stanley cup ercholesterolemia, diverticulitis, hypothyroidism, laryngitis secondary stanley cup to esophageal reflux, lumbar strain and complete removal of superficial skin lesions, Monahan wrote. The heart attack Sanders suffered in early October was his most significant event in terms of his recent health.While Sanders was prescribed a blood thinner and beta blocker following the heart attack, he has since stopped taking the medications as he s recovered, Monahan said. Your heart muscle strength has improved, the physician wrote.Sanders was sidelined for several days after suffering the heart attack on October 1 while campaigning in Las Vegas and was admitted to the hospital. Doctor stanley cup s discovered a blockage in one artery and inser Pain Obama: Brewer chat not a big deal
The Army announced the retirement Monday of its surgeon general, Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, in the latest fallout from the controversy over outpatient care of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.Kiley, who headed Walter Reed from 2002 to 2004, submitted his retirement request on Sunday, the Army said in a statement Monday.Kiley, who was the commander at Walter Reed fo stanley cup r years before being promoted to oversee all of the Army s hospitals, was lambasted last week at one congressional hearing after another, reports CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Bob Fuss. His numerous apologies were rejected by those who noted he had frequently been told about problems at the hospital s outpatient facilities and failed to fix them. He minimized the problem and blamed reporters when the story first broke. He is the third high-level official to lose his job over revelations of substandard living conditions and bureaucratic delays at the facility overwhelmed with wounded from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.The secretary stanley spain of the Army wa stanley cup s forced out in part because he put Kiley in temporary charge of Walter Reed when the commander there was fired, so it s not really a surprise that Kiley is now gone, too, reports Fuss. Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock, currently Deputy Surgeon General, immediately assumed the Surgeon General s duties, the Army said in a press release. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 { display: none;

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UPDATE: The Clinton campaign announced Saturday night that Hillary for America bought national air time for two 30-second television spots during Sunday Night Football to air testimonial ads from afatherand agrandfatherabout why they are supporting Hillary Clinton, despi stanley cups te being Republicans.How will fathers vote Tuesday As the polls tighten, thatrsquo one of the many questions Irsquo;m looking to have answered when the voting stops. Wersquo;ve all heard about Hillary Clinto stanley shop nrsquo lead with women voters and particularly with college-educated white women. But what about their husbands Since the fall, the Clinton campaign has made a concerted effort to reach out to fathers and grandfathers. Will it pay off Republican strategists first alerted me to this push by the Clinton team. After the first debate, Trump took a hit in the first weeks of October with college-educated white men. In our CBS poll on Oct. 3, he had 47 percent of their support. In our next poll, Oct. 17, after the second debate, Trumprsquo support among white college-educated men had dropped to 37 percent. Ten points. Trump, who had been ahead with all men in early September by 11 points, dropped to only being ahead by 2 points in early October. Other po stanley quencher lls showed Trump dropping with men. In the Bloomberg poll, between Sept. 24 and Oct. 17 Trump shed fifteen points with men. He once led by thirteen points, but by the middle of October was down two. In the ABC po Dtsn Aide Walt Nauta also indicted in documents case against Trump
The question of whether the Horned Frogs are doomed to share the fate of the Thundering Herd and the Green Wave is not your typical topic of discussion in offi stanley en mexico cial Washington.But senators could look to the plight of the undefeated Texas Christian University Horned Frogs on Wednesday as they inquire about the fairness and legality of the Bowl Championship Series mdash; the method in place for crowning college football s national champion.Now 8-0, the Horned Frogs follow in the footsteps of the Marshall University Thundering Herd and the Tulane University Green Wave before them as little schools that could, but ultimately could not because they were shut out of the BCS bowls by a process critics say is unduly restrictive and exclusive. termo stanley To automatically qualify for an elite BCS bowl game, a team must finish in the top six in the BCS rankings and in the top 12 just to be eligible. The process favors the nation s six powerhouse football conferences and Notre Dame. The Horned Frogs are currently 12th. It makes it virtually impossible for any BCS school to become a guaranteed at-large team, Tulane University President Scott Cowen said Tuesday. He was testifying Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. There s no rationale for it other than they want it to be exclusive and have a concentration of money and po stanley water jug wer, he said.It was 1998 when Tulane went through its season undefeated, but had to settle for playing in the Liberty

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Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, said Monday morning he felt really good going into Tuesday s floor vote in the race to be the next speaker of the House, and by Monday evening, after the House GOP conference met, several Republicans echoed his optimism.Rep. Tom Emmer, Republican of Minnesota, told reporters, We re gonna have a speaker tomorrow, and he said it would be Jordan.Jordan said Monday night, I felt good walking into the conference. I feel even better now. We got a few more people we want to talk to, listen to, and then we ll have a vote tomorrow. When I left Friday, I told our colleagues, Look, we ll visit over the weekend. We ll talk about any concerns and listen to concerns you may have, Jordan exclusively told CBS News Monday morning. I think none of those con stanley cup cerns are anything that we can t, we can t a stanley cup ddress, so I feel good about where we re at. The Ohio Republican stayed in Washington over the weekend to meet with GOP lawmakers and make calls to shore up support. When the Republican conference went into recess Friday afternoon, Jordan had won the votes of 152 Republicans members by secret ballot, and 55 said they would not vote for him on the House floor. At the stanley cups uk end of the weekend, there were still10 to 20 holdouts, CBS News Robert Costa reported. Monday morning, his candidacy received a boost from House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers, Republican of Alabama, who tweeted hisendorsementon X. He sai Sute A Third Party Alternative To McCain
CBS News Fox News is under fire for a campaign ad-style stanley cup four-minute video highly critical of President Obama, which ran twice on the cable channel s morning program Fox Friends on Wednesday morning.Co-host Gretchen Carlson introduced t stanley trinkflaschen he video, saying let s take a look back at the president s term with the graphic looking back at four years of change on the bottom of the television screen.The video opens with crowds chanting O-ba-ma, followed by words on the screen saying Fox Friends presents Hope and Change. About 30 seconds in, ominous music begins and continues throughout the entire video that is interspersed with Mr. Obama s speeches and dire-sounding news anchors talking about the debt, the economy and the cost of gas.At the end of the ad, the three co-hosts thank producer Chris White for doing stanley termosky a great job and the tremendous amount of research put into creating the video. The video was posted on the Fox News website earlier in the day, but it appears to have been taken down. Liberal media watch-dog group Media Matters, which is often critical of Fox News, first drew attention to the segment. A blog post that contains the video says, While Fox Friends has long been a home for some of the most vicious, misleading, petty, and dishonest attacks on President Obama, they crossed a new ethical line today by producing and airing what is essentially a four-minute anti-Obama attack ad. Meanwhile,

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Despite arecord number of women running for political office this year, Republican Rep. Kristi Noem says that women voters don t want to just talk about women s issues. As an example, she cites her own campaign to stanley vaso become South Dakota s first female governor. In my primary we talked about my experience mdash; my experience running businesses, starting businesses, serving at the state level and the legislature in leadership and then also my knowledge of federal policy and how it impacts our state, said Noem on CBS Face the Nation stanley tumblers on Sunday. I think that as we look across the country women don t just want to talk about women s issues. We want to talk about everything that s important to our economy, to jobs, to our children s futures. And that s what we ve focused on in South Dakota discussions. Noem said that while there s always a time when someone is the first person to be nominated in a state and to run and to be elected, potentially, to a leadership position in your state, overwhelmingly South Dakotans are looking for the best person to sit in that job that can provide the leadership to address some of the challenges that we state that we face. She added, We are a very small state but that also means that we can be nimble and we have a unique opportunity here for some states and governors to stand up and address policies that will give us a t stanley uk estimony of what we can do in this country to put it back on its foundation. Qjui President Obama s Schedule Today
John Kerry s rivals tried Monday to slow his brisk pace toward the Democratic nomination for president, with John Edwards and Wesley Clark searching for upset wins in two Southern states and Howard Dean beseeching Wisconsin voters to keep this debate alive. As Edwards and Clark concentrated on Virginia and Tennessee, which hold primaries Tuesday, Kerry ignored his rivals and criticized President Bush on foreign policy and his stewardship of the economy. Looking ahead to Wi stanley cup sconsin, Dean said that despite earlier statements that he viewed the Feb. 17 primary as a do-or-die contest, he would stay in the race regardless of the outcome. I ve just changed my mind, he said.Before an audience in Roanoke, Va., Kerry scorned a White House economic report released earlier in the day that predicted the economy wou stanley termoska ld grow by 4 percent and create 2.6 million new jobs this year. I ve got a feeling this report was prepared by the same people who brought us the intelligence on Iraq, Kerry said, citing job losses of more than 2 million since Bush took office. It was just a joke, but it highlighted a growing problem for President Bush - new issues of credibility and tru stanley mugs st on his wartime record, which had been his strongest asset and the core of his upcoming campaign, reports CBS News Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts. Kerry also faulted Mr. Bush for policy failures on North Korea, AIDS, global warming and the Middle East peace proces

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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday said she doesn t necessarily expect the new sanctions announced against some in Russian President Vladimir Putin to change Mr. Trump s intent to meet with Putin at the White House soon. On Friday, the Trump administration announcedsanctions targeting Russian elites, including Putin s son-in-law and body guard. No, not at all, Sanders said, in response to a question from chief White House correspondent Major Garrett about whether the White House expects the summit to change. We ll continue, as the president has said, he wants to have a good relationship with Russia, but that s going to depend on some of the acti stanley uk ons by the Russians. Sanders, pressed by Garrett, did not specify what about Russia s behavior most aggravates Mr. Trump. Sanders also addressed the U.S. trade dispute with China, after Mr. Trump Thursday night asked the U.S. Trade Office to consider $100 billion in new tariffs against China. That s after China announced $50 billion in tariffs against the U.S., in response to $50 billion in U.S. tariffs on China. Moments before Friday s briefing, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on CBNC said there might be a trade war, prompting the Dow to dr stanley cups uk op more than 600 points. Sanders blamed China for any trade issues. We are again, this is something stanley mug that China has created and President Trump is trying to fix it, she told reporters. Asked if Mr. Trump still thinks trade wars are ea Wosf Trump approves two-day stopgap funding to avert shutdown as spending talks continue
This story was written by Richie Rathsack, Badger HeraldAfter a four-year and nearly $700,000 battle through the court system, the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided Tuesday that Madison-area tavern owners did not violate anti-trust laws on their voluntary ban of weekend drink specials. Pete Madland, executive director of the Wisconsin Tavern League, which was the defendant in the case, said while they were happy with the decision, the cost of both the state and the still-pending federal case shave been tremendous. Obviously were happy with the decision. This is a situation where tavern owners were trying to work with the cit stanley kubek y to solve a problem, Madland said. The court decided the spirit was proper, and the bar owners did nothing wrong. In 2004 three individuals, including two University of Wisconsin students, stanley mugs filed a lawsuit against a group of downtown area taverns for banning weekend specials, which they said amounted to price fixing. Kendall Harrison, attorney for the taverns, said the Supreme Court decided what the taverns have been arguing from the beginning of the case. Th stanley travel mug is is exactly how we expected it would end. From the outset, we argued that our clients had done what the city asked them to do. Thats the way the Supreme Court saw it, Harrison said. It was pretty clear from the fact that it was in response to the citys regulatory pressure. Had the Supreme Court decided against the

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While running a statewide campaign isn t cheap, the cost pales in comparison for what it takes to fund a successful presidential run. Yet when it comes to raising money, a number of the 25 Democratic candidates for president are struggling to keep up with their party s Senate candidates.In 2018, Democrats flipped an Arizona Senate seat for the first time since the 1980s. Now they re trying to take the other seat. In the second fundraising quarter of 2019, veteran Mark Kelly raised $4.2 million dollars in his race against Republican Sen. Martha McSally, topping the $4.1 million he raised in the first quarter of the year.Next door in New Mexico, Rep. B stanley cups uk en Ray Lujan raised $1.1 million since announcing his bid April 1st for the seat was vacate stanley website d by Sen. Tom Udall. Farther north in Colorado, two Democratic Senate candidates have also raised more than a million dollars in the fundraising quarter. Mike Johnston raised $1.6 million and Dan Baer raised more than $1 million in their efforts to win the Democratic nomination against Sen. Cory Gardn stanley deutschland er.By contrast, former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, a candidate for president, has only raised $1.1 million in the same fundraising period. He haspushed backon suggestions that he should be running for the Senate instead, saying it s just not his calling. Other Democratic presidential contenders are having trouble keeping up with Senate candidates. Rep. Tim Ryan, for example, brought in less Dext U. South Florida Officials: University Cannot Afford A Presidential Debate
President-elect Obama holds a news conference at 10:45am ET vaso stanley today in Chicago to announce his choice of Mary Schapiro to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, replacing Christopher Cox, who has said that he will leave the post at the end of the Bush Administration. CBS News has also confirmed that Obama will name retiring Republican U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood of Illinois to be his Transportation Secretary. That announcement is expected to happen tomorrow. Vice President-elect Biden is in Delaware today for private meetings.***Wall Street Journal, Regulator Schapiro to Run SEC for Obama : Ms. Schapiro, 53 years old, will take over an agency beset by problems, from its failure to catch red flags in the alleged $50 billion Madoff fraud to accusations of lax oversight of Wall Street banks. The announcement is expected Thursday in Chicago. She was credited with beefing up enforcement while at the National Association of Securities Dealers and guiding the creation of stanley cup the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which she now leads. But some in the industry questi stanley mug oned whether she would be strong enough to get the SEC back on track. ***Wall Street Journal, LaHood to Get Transportation Post : Mr. LaHood would be the second Republican picked to serve in President-elect Barack Obama s cabinet, helping to fullfill a pledge for a bipartisan panel of advisers. The first was Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, whom Mr. Obama has asked to stay on in that role. Mr. LaHood s resume on tr