http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/another_tar_heel_working_for_obama Comments for "Another Tar Heel working for Obama" en http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/another_tar_heel_working_for_obama <!-- Begin check for Blog Icon --> <img src="/sites/projects.newsobserver.com/files/obamahead_100.jpg" class="blog-icon" /> <!-- End check for Blog Icon --> <!-- Begin check for Teaser Toggle --> <div class="field-item"><p>Another Tar Heel has joined the Obama administration.</p><p>According to an <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/17/AR2008121703645_2.html">item</a> by the Washington Post&#39;s Al Kamen, a native North Carolinian will soon help shepherd <a href="/under_the_dome/profiles/barack_obama">Barack Obama&#39;s</a> health care plan: </p><blockquote><p>Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, now tasked with overhauling the nation&#39;s health-care system and the Department of Health and Human Services, will be able to count on former aide Mark Childress to help him. Childress is to be his chief of staff and also deputy director of the new White House Office of Health Reform. Childress had been Daschle&#39;s chief counsel and policy director when he was in the Senate.</p></blockquote><p>Childress, a native of Asheville, was a <a href="http://www.moreheadcain.org/">Morehead scholar</a> at <a href="http://www.unc.edu">UNC-Chapel Hill&#39;s</a> law school and still has family in North Carolina. </p></div> <div class="node-blog-teaser-footer"> <div class="node-blog-teaser-comments"><a href="http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/another_tar_heel_working_for_obama#comment"><img src="http://www.newsobserver.com/images/front_new/icon_discussion.gif" width="11" height="7" border="0" /> Comments (0)</a> <!-- If permissions, display edit link at end of teaser --> <!-- End edit link code --> </div> </div> <!-- End check for Teaser Toggle --> <!-- BEGIN AUDIO ATTACHMENT CODE --> http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/another_tar_heel_working_for_obama#comment Asheville Barack Obama Mark Childress Morehead Scholar Tom Daschle U.S. Department of Health and Human Services unc-chapel hill Under the Dome Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:30:17 -0500 ryanteaguebeckwith 11260 at http://projects.newsobserver.com