CongressNow: Possibilities Abound for Obama Cabinet

By Louis Jacobson
CongressNow Staff
Aug. 26, 2008, 12 a.m.

With Democrats having been out of the White House for eight years, there is no shortage of Cabinet-ready personnel for a President Barack Obama to choose from. Here are some names being floated for domestic Cabinet appointments. National security and economic posts are covered in other articles in this series.



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