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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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DeLauro For HHS?

By Marc Ambinder

Feb 6 2009, 2:07 PM ET Comment

Two Democratic sources say that White House is considering Rep. Rosa DeLauro for the now-vacated Health and Human Services Dept. nomination. DeLauro has the health care chops; she knows the issues cold. She is personally close to the two men who will lead healthcare through the Senate, Sen. Ted Kennedy and Sen. Chris Dodd, for whom she served as chief of staff at one point.  Oh, and the chief of staff to President Obama lives in her basement.



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