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Cabinet Tracker

President Barack Obama may be staying put for four more years, but many of the top officials he appointed to agency posts are eyeing the exits. Federal News Radio's Cabinet Tracker will follow the comings and goings of the leaders in his Cabinet (and other high-level presidential appointees) heading into Obama's second term.

Tags: Election 2012 , Hillary Clinton , Leon Panetta , Shaun Donovan , Hilda Solis , Todd Park , Steven VanRoekel , Jeff Zients , Tim Geithner , Janet Napolitano

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Obama picks budget official to run troubled IRS

Tags: IRS , Barack Obama , Justice Department , Steven Miller , Tea Party , Congress , Mitch McConnell , Joseph Grant

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89 charged in Medicare fraud busts in 8 cities

Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

Tags: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services , fraud, waste and abuse , Kathleen Sebelius , Justice Department

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Atty Gen orders probe into IRS targeting groups

Tags: FBI , DoJ , IRS scandal , IRS ,

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AG Holder delaying furlough decisions to mid-April

Attorney General Eric Holder says he isn't making a decision on whether to furlough Justice Department employees until mid-April.

Tags: Justice Department , furloughs , sequestration

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Holder averts furloughs of prison staffers

Attorney General Eric Holder says he has averted daily furloughs of 3,570 federal prison staffers around the country, moving $150 million from other Justice Department accounts to stave off a serious threat to the lives and safety of correctional staff, inmates and the public.

Tags: Justice Department

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Justice: Progress in Fast and Furious negotiations

Tags: Darrell Issa , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Justice Department , Fast and Furious ,

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Obama Cabinet shuffle taking shape

Tags: John Kerry , State , management , nomination , VA , Eric Shinseki , HHS , Kathleen Sebelius , DoJ

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AG Holder: protect voting rights provision

Tags: Justice , Voting rights

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Govt won't bring charges over CIA interrogations

The Justice Department announced Thursday it has ended its investigation into CIA interrogations of terrorist detainees without bringing criminal charges.

Tags: CIA , Justice Department , John Dunham , David Patraeus , al-Qaida , terrorist

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