... included in the bill to ensure it does not add to the deficit. For the second straight day, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel journeyed to the Capitol, where he met with senior Democrats involved in drafting the legislation. Controversy dogged ...

... committee specifically to not subpoena President-elect Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and Nils Larsen, a Tribune Co. executive vice president. Fitzgerald said any such ...

... tense day of back room negotiations in which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, joined by White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, sought to attract the support of enough Republicans to give the measure the needed 60-vote majority. Officials ...

... distraction that the governor's scandal had become. The report is expected to disclose details about contacts with Rahm Emanuel, Obama's incoming chief of staff who Blagojevich aides have said spoke regularly to the Democratic governor. An ...

... Democratic leaders following White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel weighing in to urge Democrats make a final round of ... Collins and Specter, as does White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's embrace of the measure in late stage talks. Officials ...

... cringe? Obama's staff includes several people who know Blagojevich well. The president-elect's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, once bragged that he was one of the governor's most important advisers. Obama's top political strategist, David ...

... he said. You still know how to do the job. Better yet, you remember how not to do it. So the issue is not that Rahm Emanuel, the new presidential chief of staff, is an old Clinton administration operative and recent partisan Democratic congressional ...

... Republicans in closed-door meetings on Tuesday that he is ready to accept modifications as the legislation advances. Rahm Emanuel, a former Illinois congressman who is Obama's chief of staff, invited nearly a dozen House Republicans to the White ...

... approved its original version of the bill on a party-line vote of 61-37. Reid, Pelosi and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel plunged into a series of meetings designed to produce agreement in time for Obama to sign the bill by mid-month ...

... even before the president met privately with the GOP rank and file. In retrospect, said White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the White House wasn't "sharp enough" in emphasizing the benefits of the bill as Republicans began to criticize ...