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Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, has agreed to become Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama Administration. Sebelius served as executive director and chief lobbyist for the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association (now Kansas Association for Justice) from...

This morning, United States Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the publication in today's Federal Register (74 FR 56547) of the final rule repealing HIV from the list of "communicable diseases of public ... significance." This final rule finally ends the ban on immigrants and foreign national non-immigrants effective January 1, 2010, according to Sebelius, who said, "This change has been a long time coming, and I am pleased it is happening now." (HHS Press Release) The ...

In advance of her Senate confirmation hearing, Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius has corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding several "unintentional errors" involving deductions for charitable contributions, mortgage...

From the Iowa Independent: "Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?" Sebelius asked in response to a question about why the election is so close. "That may be a factor. All the code language, all that doesn't show ... "part African-American." He is 100% African American, but half black. At the end of the day, other than Gov. Sebelius, who really cares? I know I speak for virtually all Americans when I say that I care about the presidential race but I don't give a flying ...

... last night on why I think the Obama campaign is floating Tim Kaine as a smokescreen in the Veepstakes and the frontrunner is Kathleen Sebelius. Here's the latest veep sweepstakes numbers from 538.com. Law Prof Michael Froomkin at Discourse.Net ... The downside: The Democratic ticket becomes a double-dose of inexperience at the national level. Neither Obama nor Sebelius have enough experience. But when reality sets in, the bottom line will be, contrary to what I repeatedly said and believed during ...

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kan.) recently published a compelling article in the Harvard Law & Policy Review, the official law journal of ACS. In "Bearing the Burden of the Beltway: Practical Realities of State Government and Federal- ... to fruition in the near future." However, the authors pass on providing specific elements of how such a policy should be formed. Sebelius's confirmation hearings for Human Health and Services Secretary began on Tuesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor ...

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (mediamonarchy.com) Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says she will launch a new multiyear effort to improve health care for Native Americans, calling previous federal programs a "historic failure." ... and the stimulus bill signed earlier this year provided for construction and improvements to health clinics on reservations. Nevertheless, Sebelius says the funding increase still falls well short of the IHS' actual needs. "One of my challenges to ...

... of news organizations (including CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, and FoxNews) reported that President Obama decided to nominate Governor Kathleen Sebelius for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and that she accepted the nomination request. On March 2, 2009, President Obama formally announced Governor Sebelius' nomination. At the same time, President Obama announced that Nancy-Ann DeParle will serve as Counselor to the President and ...

The New York Times reports that Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has accepted President Obama's invitation to be his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Peter Baker writes, President Obama asked Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas on Saturday to...

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius will be the new chief of HHS. I think she's a far better choice than Tom Daschle. Here's some background on her. The announcement will be made Monday. Update: Sebelius has accepted the nomination.