Obama Staffing Update

Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsak for Secretary of Agriculture.

Republican Congressman Ray Lahood for Secretary of Transportation.

Mary Schapiro, current CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as SEC Chairman. Finra which operates under SEC supervision, is a self regulatory organization, and was created last year in a merger of the NYSE and NASD self regulatory agencies.

I don’t know if this is good, because it means that she knows the system, or bad, because she’s too much of an insider.

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