Obama picked businessman John Bryson as his new Commerce Secretary, reports Zachary Goldfarb:

1) Obama picked businessman John Bryson as his new Commerce Secretary, reports

 

Zachary Goldfarb: "President Obama on Tuesday nominated former electric utility executive John E. Bryson as his next Commerce secretary...Bryson spent nearly two decades as the head of the largest utility in North America, Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison, and today serves as a senior adviser to the private-equity giant Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts. He also is a director of Boeing and Walt Disney, a former energy regulator in California and a noted environmentalist who co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council...Senate Republicans immediately vowed Tuesday to block the nomination in a dispute with Obama and Senate Democrats

 

over outstanding free-trade agreements."