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- Congress Daily
- November 6, 2008
- Comments
A Democratic aide on Thursday afternoon confirmed that House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois has accepted the job of White House chief of staff for President-elect Obama.
The choice, which creates a vacancy for Caucus chairman, was greeted warily by House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.
"This is an ironic choice for a president-elect who has promised to change Washington, make politics more civil, and govern from the center," said Boehner.
Emanuel is considered a strong partisan who, as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, led Democrats back to the majority two years ago.
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