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| x United States Secretary of State |
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Bill Richardson |
The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and...
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| Dick Lugar | |||
| John Kerry | |||
| x United States Secretary of the Treasury |
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Timothy F. Geithner |
The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters, and, until 2003, some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal...
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| Sheila C. Bair | |||
| Lawrence Summers | |||
| Robert Rubin | |||
| Paul Volcker | |||
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| x United States Secretary of Defense |
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Richard J. Danzig |
The United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), concerned with the armed services and military matters. This position roughly corresponds to Minister of defense in other countries. The role of the...
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| Robert Gates | |||
| Chuck Hagel | |||
| John Hamre | |||
| x United States Attorney General |
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Janet Napolitano |
The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice (see 28 U.S.C. § 503) concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The Attorney General is considered...
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| Eric Holder | |||
| Deval Patrick | |||
| Tim Kaine | |||
| x United States Secretary of Homeland Security |
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Timothy J. Roemer |
The United States Secretary of Homeland Security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the body concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. The Secretary is a member of the...
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| Susan Collins | |||
| William J. Bratton | |||
| Gary Hart | |||
| Jane Harman | |||
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| x National Security Advisor |
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Samantha Power |
The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor (abbreviated NSA, or sometimes APNSA or ANSA to avoid confusion with the abbreviation of the National Security Agency), serves as the...
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| Greg Craig | |||
| Susan E. Rice | |||
| Anthony Zinni | |||
| James Steinberg | |||
| x United States Secretary of Agriculture |
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Collin Peterson |
The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The current secretary is Tom Vilsack, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on 20 January 2009. The position carries similar responsibilities to...
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| Tom Vilsack | |||
| Jim Leach | |||
| Tom Daschle | |||
| x United States Secretary of Commerce |
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Kathleen Sebelius |
The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce." Until...
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| Olympia Snowe | |||
| Penny Pritzker | |||
| Ed Rendell | |||
| x United States Secretary of Education |
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George Miller |
The United States Secretary of Education is the head of the Department of Education. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet, and 16th in line of United States presidential line of succession. The United States Secretary of Education...
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| Thomas Kean | |||
| David L. Boren | |||
| x United States Secretary of Energy |
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Jeff Bingaman |
The United States Secretary of Energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fifteenth in the Presidential line of succession. The post was created with the formation of the Department of...
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger | |||
| Steven Chu | |||
| x United States Secretary of Health and Human Services |
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Howard Dean |
The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, concerned with health matters. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet. The office was formerly Secretary...
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| John Kitzhaber | |||
| Tom Daschle | |||
| x United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
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Jesse Jackson, Jr. |
The United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is the head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, concerned with urban housing matters. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.
The department was...
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| Valerie Jarrett | |||
| Shaun Donovan | |||
| x United States Secretary of the Interior |
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Jay Inslee |
The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior.
The US Department of the Interior should not be confused with the concept of Ministries of the Interior as used in other countries. Ministries...
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| Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | |||
| x United States Secretary of Labor |
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Dick Gephardt |
The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the Department of Labor who exercises control over the department and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace and all other issues involving any form of business-person...
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| Andy Stern | |||
| x United States Secretary of Transportation |
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Earl Blumenauer |
The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet. Ray LaHood is the current Secretary of Transportation.
Denotes acting Secretaries
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| Jim Oberstar | |||
| x United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
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Max Cleland |
The United States Secretary of Veterans' Affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans' benefits and related matters. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and second to last at...
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| Tammy Duckworth | |||
| James Peake | |||
| x White House Chief of Staff |
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The White House Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President. The office-holder has been dubbed "The Second-Most Powerful Man in Washington" due to the...
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| x Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency |
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Kathleen McGinty |
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is the head of the United States federal government's Environmental Protection Agency, and is thus responsible for enforcing the nation's Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, as well as numerous...
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| Lincoln Chafee | |||
| Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | |||
| Lisa P. Jackson | |||
| x Vice President of the United States |
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The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral...
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| x Secretary General |
A number of international organizations, political parties, and other bodies use the title Secretary General or Secretary-General for their chief administrative officer.
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| x United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
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The United States Ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations. The position is more formally known as the "Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank...
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| x Director, United States Office of Management and Budget | Peter R. Orszag | ||
