President-elect Barack Obama may have defeated the politician most
Rahm Emanuel, an Illinois congressman who was most recently the fourth-highest ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives is known for driving a hard deal on Wall Street as well as on Capitol Hill. Rep. Emanuel left President Bill Clinton´s White House in 1998 to work for the investment firm Wasserstein Perella & Co., which was later sold to Dresdner Bank and became Dresdner Kleinwort.
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Rep. Emanuel´s Wall Street knowledge could come in handy. Last month, as House Democrats celebrated the passage of the bailout bill on the second try, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., praised Rep. Emanuel for contributing his Wall Street savvy to the effort. He remains well connected to his former colleagues. Investment bankers counted among the donors to his congressional campaigns, and Rep. Emanuel described himself to American Banker as having been