Obama Agency-Vetting To Begin Next Week

John Podesta, co-chairman of the Obama transition team, said that government agency review teams would be named by the end of this week, and that they would start vetting agencies as early as the following Monday. He said the agency review teams would be going over more than 100 agencies, departments and commissions "to provide the President-elect, Vice President-elect, cabinet and subcabinet officials once selected, and key advisers with the information needed to make strategic policy, budgetary and personnel decisions prior to the inauguration." Podesta said the 2009 digital television transition is at the forefront for the Federal Communications Commission transition team.