Obama to nominate new OPM Director

ABC News and the Washington Post are reporting this morning that the President later today maynominate Katherine Archulete to succeed John Berry as director of the Office of Personnel Management which hold responsibility for managing the FEHBP.  Ms. Archuleta previously served as chief of staff to former Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and she was national political director for the President's re-election campaign last year according to those reports. The nomination requires Senate confirmation.