Biden, Obama fill more staff positions

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http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/11/biden-obama-fil.html#more

The latest staffing news from the Obama-Biden transition team:

• Alyssa Mastromonaco has been named director of scheduling and advance for the Obama White House. She held that job in Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and before that handled scheduling at his Senate office.

• Mike Donilon will be counselor to the vice president when Joe Biden assumes office. He was Biden's "traveling adviser" during the campaign and has been one of the Delaware senator's confidantes for 25 years.

• Terrell McSweeny will be Biden's domestic policy adviser. She was Biden's deputy chief of staff and policy director in the Senate before working for him during the general election.

• Evan Ryan will be Biden's assistant for intergovermental affairs and public liasison. Among her past jobs: deputy director of scheduling for then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.