By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved Janet Yellen s nomination as the first woman Treasury secretary, indicating that she will easily win full Senate approval, but Republicans called for her to work with them in developing economic policies. Yellen s nomination was approved 26-0 in the evenly split committee, with concerns expressed by Republicans about President Joe Biden s ambitious plans for massive coronavirus relief spending, infrastructure investment and tax hikes failing to sway them against the former Federal Reserve chair. There is no question she is qualified for this role, said fiscal conservative Republican Senator James Lankford, noting that he has policy disagreements with Yellen.
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The true colour of the United States (US) President-elect, Joe Biden’s cabinet is gradually emerging with a number of blacks already announced. These include, Lloyd Austin (Secretary of Defence); Linda Thomas-Greenfield (US Ambassador to the United Nations); Cecilia Rouse (Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers); Neera Tanden (Director of the Office of Management and Budget); and Adewale Adeyemo (Deputy Treasury Secretary). With this disposition towards blacks in the incoming US administration, political pundits have begun to interpret this as a manifestation of the DREAM Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed in the speech delivered at the “March on Washington” in 1963 titled ‘I Have A Dream ’ reproduced below:
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I found the piece published here today a compelling read. Titled “The Chinese and Fulani Only Need Patience with Yoruba over South-west Nigeria”, it was authored by my “egbon”, Dr. Babafemi A. Badejo. Please enjoy it!
“On December 6, 2020, Aderinwa was on my mind as I played golf at the Sadique Baba Abubakar Golf Club, Shasha, a suburb of Lagos. Aderinwa Badejo is the new addition to my family. He is my third grandchild. Since he was born outside Nigeria, he was given his name virtually on December 5, 2020. Yoruba people of whatever religion gave a child a name on the 8th day of birth. So, I thought it was a Yoruba cultural issue alone until my son read the passage that the Anglican Venerable had asked him to read.
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