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Tue 02 Feb 2009Obama names advisers to head taskforce on auto industry revamp
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama opted against naming a “car czar”, instead asking Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers to head a taskforce on revamping the US auto industry.
Ron Bloom, a United Steelworkers union adviser and former Lazard vice-president, will join administration members on the team, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said yesterday.
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