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CNN and The Huffington Post are reporting that President-elect Barack Obama is close to settling on Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as his pick for energy secretary.

With President-elect Barack Obama expected to officially name key members of his economic team at a press conference in Chicago later thes morning, ABC’s Jake Tapper reports a new name on the list.
Appearing on “Good Morning America” today, Tapper said Obama is set to name Christina Romer as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers [...]