Massachusetts Democratic State Committeeman Jim Roosevelt has been tapped to lead President-elect Barack Obama's Social Security Administration Review Team, according to Obama's transition office.
Obama, an Illinois Democrat, has launched teams to look at all arms of the government and make recommendations as to where reforms can be made. Roosevelt, along with Dr. Susan Daniels, is leading the Social Security team.
Roosevelt is the president and CEO for the Tufts Health Plan, where he previously served as senior vice president and general counsel. Before that, Roosevelt was the associate commissioner for Retirement Policy for the Social Security Administration in Washington, D.C.
Roosevelt, who resides in Cambridge, is perhaps most well-known as the co-chair of the Rules and By-laws Committee for the Democratic National Committee. In that post, he led the contentious hearing over how to allocate the disputed delegates from the Florida and Michigan presidential primaries last summer.
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