Albright and Leach make the rounds at G-20

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President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden announced that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Republican Congressman Jim Leach would be available to meet with delegations at the G-20 summit on their behalf. Leach and Albright are holding these unofficial meetings to seek input from visiting delegations on behalf of the president-elect and vice president-elect.

Below are more details on the specific delegations Leach and Albright are meeting. The president-elect and vice president-elect will receive a briefing from Leach and Albright following the meetings.

Albright served as secretary of state and United States ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton administration. Leach represented Iowa's 2nd Congressional District for 30 years, where he served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and chaired the Banking and Financial Services Committee, the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.