President elect Barack Obama is reaching onto Capitol Hill to pick two veteran Congressional aides to serve on his new White House lobbying team.
A senior Democratic aide said Monday that Shawn Maher, a majority staff director for Majority Leader Harry Reid, was to be named the leader of the Senate lobbying team under Obama's head of legislative affairs, Phil Schiliro.
The senior Democratic aide said. Dan Turton, top aide to House Rules Chairman Louise M. Slaughter, D-N.Y., would be named leader of the House lobbying team for Obama.
Schiliro is a former top aide to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who will be succeed Energy and Commerce Chairman John D. Dingell, of Michigan, at the start of the 111th Congress.
-- Alan Ota
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