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Obama Selects IOP Fellow as Secretary of Agriculture

By Lauren D. Kiel, Crimson Staff Writer

President-elect Barack Obama will nominate former Iowa Governor and Institute of Politics fellow Tom Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture, Obama announced last week.

Like Obama, Vilsack promotes support for biofuels such as ethanol as critical to reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil and combating climate change, through others criticize such subsidies as sops to states like Vilsack's Iowa, where ethanol is a key source of revenue.

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