Trump eyes House members for Cabinet jobs
By Scott Wong - 11/23/16 06:00 AM EST
Donald Trump has already tapped one House lawmaker for a key post in his fledgling administration: Conservative Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) is likely to be the next CIA director.
But other relatively obscure House lawmakers — including Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Tom Price, Mike McCaul and Marsha Blackburn — could make the leap from lower chamber to presidential Cabinet.
There’s plenty of precedent for president-elects to bring House members into their inner circle. After Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, he named Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) his first chief of staff. Obama also picked Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) to lead the Labor Department and Rep. Ray LaHood, a Republican from his home state of Illinois, to run his Transportation Department.
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