Who Is President

Politico - The survey of 1,007 registered voters conducted Dec. 27-29 showed that 79 percent of respondents favored Obama’s plan. The president-elect is advocating a $775 billion stimulus that includes a major investment in infrastructure projects and alternative energy as well as middle-class tax cuts, job training and health care reform.

AP - Nancy Killefer, the management consultant chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to make federal agencies work better for the public, has a lot of experience trying to improve the agency taxpayers love to hate, the Internal Revenue Service.

AP - Eric Holder Jr., President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for attorney general, brings to his confirmation hearing next week a dream resume and a bull’s-eye target with his picture in the middle.

Politico - They might sit side-by-side in Barack Obama’s Cabinet room someday, but Tom Daschle didn’t much like Hillary Clinton’s tactics for fixing health care 15 years ago – so much so that he wrote a book critiquing them.

AP - The House and Senate are coming together in a centuries-old tradition to count the electoral votes from the November election and formally declare that Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States.

Barack Obama is reportedly preparing to scrap the way President Bush oversaw domestic security in the White House and name a former CIA official to coordinate counterterrorism.

Reuters - A film about the election-eve gun attack on Taiwan’s recently indicted ex-president Chen Shui-bian will debut on the island this week, where it is expected to reignite debate about the controversial 2004 shooting.

AP - Israeli representatives were expected to arrive in Cairo Thursday for Egyptian-brokered talks on a cease-fire proposal after the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on action to end the escalating crisis in Gaza.

AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama plans to name influential academic Joseph Nye, best known for coining the phrase “soft power,” as ambassador to Japan, a newspaper said Thursday.

1. According to the report: What gathering took place at the White House yesterday? What was the significance of this meeting?