Appendix D Staff Responsibilities and Duties The commander's staff must function as a single, cohesive unit-a professional team. Effective staff members know their respective responsibilities and duties. They are also familiar with the responsibilities and duties of other staff members.
Warren's journey from cloistered legal scholar to the kind of political superstar that threatened to eclipse Hillary Clinton's frontrunner status for the Democratic nomination is remarkable. But perhaps even more striking is her political evolution: Warren was once a Republican. It's not widely known that in the early 1990s, while she was still an academic, Warren was a registered voter with the GOP.
When the Senate passed Obama's bill on Christmas Eve, success seemed at hand. But the Republican Scott Brown had a surprise win to take Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat in Massachusetts in January, partly because of opposition to the bill, and the Democrats panicked.