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Secretary
of State
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Gen.
Colin L. Powell,
ret.
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Powell,
63, has served as chairman of the non-profit America's
Promise-The Alliance for Youth since 1997. He also has a
career
as a public speaker and serves on a number of boards. Powell
published
a best-selling autobiography
My American Journey in 1995.
His 35-year military career culminated in service as Chairman of the
Joint
Chiefs of Staff from 1989-1993, during which time he oversaw the 1991
Persian
Gulf War. National Security Adviser to President Reagan from
1987-88.
Hearings:
Committee
on Foreign Relations ...Jan. 17-18, 2001. > |
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Secretary
of the Treasury
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Paul
H. O'Neill
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O'Neill,
65, is outgoing chairman of the board of Alcoa;
he served as chairman and CEO of Alcoa from June 1987 to May
1999.
He is also chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Rand
Corporation.
Prior to working at Alcoa, O'Neill was president of International
Paper Company, 1985-87. From 1967 to 1977 he worked for the
Office
of Management and Budget; he was deputy director of the agency from
1974-77.
Hearings:
Committee
on Finance...Jan. 17, 2001. |
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Secretary
of Agriculture
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Ann
Veneman
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Veneman,
51, is a partner in the Sacramento law firm of Nossaman,
Guthner, Knox and Elliott, LLP. She served as Secretary of
the
California Department of Food and Agriculture (CFDA) from
1995-99.
From 1991-93 she was Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture
(the second-ranking person at USDA), and from 1989 to 1991 she was
Deputy
Undersecretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity
Programs.
She worked with the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service from 1986-89.
Hearings:
Committee
on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry...Jan. 18, 2001. > |
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Secretary
of Housing
and Urban Development
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Mel
Martinez
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Martinez,
54, is chairman of the Orange
County, Florida board of commissioners; he was elected to the
position
in 1998. (The county seat is Orlando; Orange County has a
population
of 860,000). Martinez is also chairman of Governor Jeb Bush's
Growth
Management Study Commission. He co-chaired Governor George W.
Bush's
presidential campaign in Florida. Before becoming chairman of
Orange
County, he practiced law in Orlando for 25 years. Martinez fled
Cuba
in 1962 when he was 15 years old.
Hearings:
Committee
on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs...Jan. 17, 2001. > |
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Secretary
of Commerce
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Don
Evans
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Evans,
54, is chairman of Tom Brown, Inc.,
an oil and gas firm. He is also chairman of the Board of Regents
of the University of Texas. He led the record-breaking Bush for
President
fundraising effort as the campaign's national finance chairman, and he
was named chairman of the campaign in April 2000. Evans has
raised
money for all of Bush's campaigns, starting with his unsuccessful 1978
run for Congress. He is a close, longtime friend of President
Elect
Bush.
Hearings:
Committee
on Commerce, Science and Transportation...Jan. 4, 2001. |
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Attorney
General
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Sen.
John Ashcroft
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Ashcroft,
58, was elected to the U.S. Senate from Missouri in 1994, but defeated
in his 2000 bid for re-election.
He explored a presidential run in 1998 before deciding against running
in January 1999. Ashcroft serves on the Senate Judiciary
Committee
and chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution.
He ran unsuccessfully for the chairmanship of the Republican National
Committee
in 1993. Ashcroft was elected governor of Missouri in 1984
and served two terms, 1985-93. Elected attorney general of
Missouri
in 1976, he served two terms, 1977-85. He served as assistant
attorney
general from 1975-76 and state auditor from 1973-75.
Hearings:
Committee
on the Judiciary ...Jan. 16-19, 2001. > |
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Secretary
of Defense
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Donald
H. Rumsfeld
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Rumsfeld,
68, served as President Ford's Secretary of Defense from November
1975 to January 1977. In 1962 at age 30, he was elected to
Congress.
After three terms, he joined the Nixon administration, serving as
director
of the Office of Economic Opportunity, as director of the Economic
Stabilization
Program and as U.S. Ambassador to NATO. He chaired the Ford
transition
and served as Ford's chief of staff before becoming Defense
Secretary.
From 1977-85 he served as president and CEO and eventually chairman of
G.D. Searle & Co. Rumsfeld later served as chairman and CEO
of
General Instrument Corporation. He is currently Chairman of the
Board
of Directors of Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Hearings:
Committee
on Armed Services ...Jan. 11, 2001. |
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Secretary
of Health
and Human Services
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Gov.
Tommy Thompson
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Tommy
Thompson, 59, was elected governor
of Wisconsin in 1986 and re-elected in 1990, 1994, and 1998.
He is author of Power to the People: An American State at Work.
Thompson was elected to the State Assembly in 1966, defeating a
long-term
incumbent, and elected assistant minority leader in 1973 and minority
leader
in 1981. He practiced law while serving in the Assembly.
Hearings:
Committee
on Finance...Jan. 18, 2001. Committee
on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions...Jan. 19, 2001. |
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Secretary
of Education
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Roderick
Paige
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Dr.
Paige, 67, has served as Superintendent of Schools for the Houston
Independent School District since he was appointed in 1994.
He
was elected to the HISD Board of Education in 1989 and served as
president
in 1992. [Houston has the seventh largest school system in the
U.S.;
in October 1999, Paige won the Council of the Great City Schools '
award
as the top urban educator in America]. Paige earlier served as
Dean
of the College of Education at Texas Southern University.
Hearings:
Committee
on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions...Jan. 10, 2001. |
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Secretary
of the Interior
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Gale
A. Norton
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Norton,
46, served as the Attorney General of Colorado from 1991-99.
Previously
she worked as Associate Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the
Interior,
responsible for endangered species and public lands issues.
Norton
worked as Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture from
1984-85.
From 1979-83 she was a senior attorney for the Mountain States Legal
Fund.
She is currently Senior Counsel at the Denver firm of Brownstein, Hyatt
& Farber, P.C.
Hearings:
Committee
on Energy and Natural Resources...Jan. 18, 2001. > |
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Secretary
of Veterans
Affairs
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Anthony
J. Principi
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Principi,
56, is president of QTC
Medical Services, Inc. He was nominated by President George
H.W.
Bush to be the first Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and
confirmed
by the U.S. Senate on March 17, 1989; Bush named him as Acting
Secretary
of Veterans Affairs on Sept. 26, 1992. Principi is a combat
decorated
Vietnam veteran; he served as Unit Commander of a River Patrol Unit in
the Mekong Delta.
Hearings:
Committee
on Veterans' Affairs ...Jan. 18, 2001. |
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Secretary
of Transportation
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Norman
Y. Mineta
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Mineta,
69, a Democrat, has served as U.S.
Secretary
of Commerce since July 2000. He was elected to the U.S. House
from the Silicon Valley area in 1974 and served in Congress for 20
years,
becoming Chairman of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation
in
1993. Mineta was elected to the City Council in San Jose,
California
in 1967 and was elected Mayor in 1971.
Hearings:
Committee
on Commerce, Science and Transportation...Jan. 24, 2001. |
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Secretary
of Energy
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Sen.
Spencer Abraham
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Abraham,
48, was elected to the U.S.
Senate from Michigan in 1994, but defeated in his 2000 bid for
re-election.
In 1993, before running for Senate, he (like John Ashcroft)
unsuccessfully
sought the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee.
Abraham
served as deputy chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle for two
years.
From 1983-90 he was chairman of the Michigan Republican Party.
Hearings:
Committee
on Energy and Natural Resources...Jan. 18, 2001. |
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Secretary
of Labor
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Elaine
L. Chao
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Chao,
47, is a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage
Foundation. She served as president and CEO of the United Way
of America from 1992-96. She was director of the Peace
Corps.
During President George H.W. Bush's administration she was Deputy
Secretary
of the Department of Transportation, 1989-91. She served as
Chairman
of the Federal Maritime Administration after two years as deputy
maritime
administrator at DOT. Before entering public service she was vice
president of syndications at Bank America Capital Markets Group in San
Francisco, 1984-86. She is married to U.S. Senator Mitch
McConnell
(R-KY).
Hearings:
Committee
on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions...Jan. 24, 2001. |
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Director
of the Office of Management and Budget
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Mitchell
E. Daniels,
Jr.
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Daniels,
51, is vice president of corporate strategy and policy at Eli
Lilly and Company; he joined the company in 1990 and has served on
its top management body since 1997. In 1987 he was named
president
and CEO of the Hudson Institute. Daniels served as an assistant
to
the president, and as liaison to state and local officials during
President
Reagan's second term. He was executive director of the National
Republican
Senatorial Committee from 1983-84. Daniels worked for Richard
Lugar
from 1971-82 when Lugar was mayor and then Senator.
Hearings:
Committee
on Governmental Affairs...Jan. 19, 2001. |
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Administrator
of the
Environmental Protection Agency
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Gov.
Christine Todd
Whitman
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Christine
Todd Whitman, 54, was elected the 50th governor
of New Jersey in 1993, defeating incumbent James Florio, and
re-elected
in 1997. In 1992 she gained attention for her surprisingly strong
showing against Sen. Bill Bradley. She headed the New Jersey
Board
of Public Utilities and the Somerset County Board of Freeholders.
Hearings:
Committee
on Environment and Public Works...Jan. 16, 2001. |
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U.S.
Trade Representative
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Robert
B. Zoellick
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Zoellick,
47, is currently Research Scholar at the Belfer
Center for Science and Int'l Affairs at Harvard University.
From
1993-97, he served as vice president of Fannie Mae. In 1992 he
served
as White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Earlier he served in the
State
Department as Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural
Affairs
and Counselor to the Department (he was the lead State Department
official
in NAFTA and Uruguay Round negotiations). During President
Reagan's
second term, he served in several positions at the Treasury
Department
under James A. Baker III.
Hearings:
Committee
on Finance...Jan. 30, 2001. |
Note:
For the Clinton administration there were ten Cabinet-level positions:
White House Chief of Staff, Administrator of the Small Business
Administration,
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Administrator
of
the Environmental Protection Agency, Chairman of the Council of
Economic
Advisers, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, U.S. Trade
Representative,
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Director of the Central
Intelligence
Agency, and Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. |
