Obama Bids Health Secretary Goodbye as He Names Successor

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This article talks about Kathleen Sebelius and how she is saying her farewells as Heath Secretary.  The article does not explicitly say why Kathleen is leaving.  However, it does mention that Obama took the time to publicly thank her for her time as his Health Secretary.  While she was under this position, Kathleen helped to pass the 2010 Healthcare Law.  She had troubles getting the Obamacare exchange website running.  However, the end result was a sucess with almost seven and a half people enrolling in insurance plans under Obamacare.  As Kathleen leaves her position, President Barack Obama has appointed Sylvia Mathews Burwell the new Health Secretary.  Currently Sylvia serves as the director of Office of Management and Budget.  Obama says she knows what shes doing and can "deliver results".  He aslo hopes that the Senate will approve her in a timely manner, seeing as they unanimously approved her when she was appointed director of Office of Management and Budget.  This relates to AP GoPo because we've recently learned the different powers of the President.  One of these include the power to appoint members of his/her cabinet.  However, the senate must approve all presidential appointments.  Which, in this case, we see working first hand.

With this article there isn't much to have a lot of opinions on.  However, I can say that I enjoy learning something and then seeing it in action.  Also I love the way our government is set up with checks and balances; this being an example of one of them.  Obama has appointed a new Health Secretary and now he waits for the Senate's approval.  The awesome system of checks and balances  allows for no one branch of governement to gain too much power.... the beauty of AMERICA! :D