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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to step down

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the only Republican still in President Obama's first-term Cabinet, said Tuesday he plans to leave the Obama administration, the Associated Press reports.

LaHood said in an interview with the AP that he told Obama a week after the November election that he needed to move on but said he was still "conflicted" by his decision because he liked working for Obama and considered it the "best job I've ever had in public service."

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