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Obama Names Alabama Doctor Regina Benjamin as Surgeon General
July 13, 2009 | In the News
Bloomberg News, 7/13/2009
By Jonathan D. Salant and Kate Andersen
July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Regina Benjamin, a specialist in rural health care who founded a clinic to serve the poor along Alabama's Gulf Coast, was named by President Barack Obama as his choice for U.S. surgeon general.
Obama, making the announcement today at the White House, called her an "outstanding candidate to be America's leading spokesperson on issues of public health."
Benjamin has focused on health-care delivery in areas that are underserved by medical facilities, according to a biography on the Web site of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthurFoundation, which awarded her a $500,000 fellowship grant in 2008.
We should all resolve to do our part to secure freedom
July 13, 2009 | Chairman's Corner
In 1943 the American artistic icon, Norman Rockwell, painted The Human Freedom Series. Rockwell's four famous paintings portrayed America and her freedoms: Freedom of Speech; Freedom of Worship; Freedom from Want; and Freedom from Fear. In the spirit of Rockwell's America, I offer some tangible results of Democratic Party leadership actions in the past twelve months at the state and national level that have protected and enhanced Alabama and American freedom.
Freedom of Speech is also the ability to work and be compensated with equality. With the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Act, Democrats led the way for equal pay for equal work for men and women. Championed by Alabama tire worker Lilly Ledbetter, the Democratic Congress passed and President Obama signed this protection of speech and work.
