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Pete Rouse is known as a fixer, a old pro in the world of Washington. The meticulous workaholic rose through three decades of unglamorous legislating to become arguably the most influential Democratic aide in the Senate when he worked for then-Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.).

“His familiarity with Washington makes him somebody whose judgment I trust,” Obama said in an interview. (end)