Obama+Cabinet

__Confirmed __ Secretary of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack  Secretary of Education: **Arne Duncan**    Secretary of Energy: Steven Chu  Secretary of Homeland Security: Janet Napolitano > Prior to her election as governor of Arizona, she served as the state's attorney general.  Housing & Urban Development : Shaun Donovan    Secretary of the Interior: Ken Salazar  Justice: Eric Holder, > Since leaving the government in 2001, Holder, 57, has been a partner at Covington & Burling LLP.  Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton
 * <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Obama Cabinet **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2/10/09
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">has been a big booster of agribusiness and genetically modified crops.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">served as the 40th Governor of the state of Iowa <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">worked on legislation requiring companies who received state tax incentives to provide better pay and benefits. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">helped pass a law for workers to receive health coverage when changing jobs, <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">helped re-design Iowa's Workforce Development Department. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">He also wrote a bill to have the State of Iowa assume a 50% share of local county mental health costs. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Duncan had previously served as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1992, Duncan became director of the Ariel Education Initiative, a program to enhance educational opportunities for children on Chicago's South Side <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">He was a fellow in the Leadership Greater Chicago's class of 1995 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Nobel Prize-winning physicist and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">an advocate for clean energy and is widely respected in the environmental community.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">known for his research in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">a Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research was concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">51-year-old second term governor of a border state has been known for taking the middle ground on immigration, calling for tougher enforcement of the border but opposing several state proposals that would punish illegal immigrants already living in the state.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">She also served as a U.S. Attorney during the Clinton administration and spent several years in private practice.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Her undergraduate degree is from Santa Clara University and her law degree is from the University of Virginia.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">She is also a breast cancer survivor.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Commissioner, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, 2004-present <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">director, Prudential Mortgage Capital Co.'s FHA lending and affordable housing initiatives, 2002-04; <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">visiting scholar, New York University, 2001- 02; consultant, <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Millennial Housing Commission, 2001-02; <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">deputy assistant secretary for multifamily housing at HUD, 2000-01; special assistant at HUD, 1998-2000. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Bachelor of arts in engineering, Harvard, 1987; master's in architecture, Harvard, 1995; master of public administration, Harvard, 1995 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">an American politician and rancher from the U.S. state of Colorado. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Democrat, served as state Attorney General before winning a U.S. Senate seat in the 2004 election. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">He was the junior Senator from Colorado since January 2005 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">senior Senator following Wayne Allard's retirement in January 2009 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Janet Reno's number two at the Justice Department during the Clinton administration,
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he served as a member of Mr. Obama vice presidential selection team.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">CBS News legal analysis Andrew Cohen called him a "smart, safe choice" as he is a widely respected lawyer with over 25 years of experience in Washington.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">However, he has also garnered controversy for his involvement while at the Justice Department in President Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Prior to becoming deputy attorney general in 1997, Holder was a U.S. Attorney and a judge in Washington.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">He also spent many years as an attorney at the justice department.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">His bachelor's and law degree are from Columbia University.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">the nation's first black attorney general.

The 61-year-old former first lady has been a senator representing New York since 2001. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">she was an attorney in private practice in Arkansas for many years.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">She has also been a law school professor and she worked on the impeachment inquiry staff of the House Judiciary Committee.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">She has an undergraduate degree from Wellesley College and a law degree from Yale University
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">By picking his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination to be the nation's top diplomat and his spokesman around the world, Mr. Obama created a so-called "team of rivals" There are still questions about how the two former rivals will work together, and about conflicts of interest involving former President Clinton. Before the nomination was final, Mr. Clinton agreed to release donors to his foundation and curtail some of his international activities

Secretary of Transportation: Ray LaHood <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">He is well-known, especially among C-SPAN viewers, as the presiding officer of more debates than any other member. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Most notably, he presided over the impeachment vote against President Bill Clinton. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> LaHood said, "Sustainability must permeate all we do."

Treasury: Timothy Geithner > Geithner first joined the Treasury Department in 1988 and served in various roles for three presidents through 2001. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">president and CEO of the New York Federal Reserve, Geithner, 47,
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">worked closely with current Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in fashioning the response to the financial crisis on Wall Street.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Geithner has international economic experience as well, including positions at the Treasury Department and the International Monetary Fund
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">During the Clinton administration, he was the under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs from 1999 to 2001.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Before joining the New York Federal Reserve in 2003, he also worked at the IMF and the Council of Foreign Relations.

Veterans Affairs: Gen. Eric K. Shinseki <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">known for publicly challenging former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Iraq war strategy.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In 2003, Shinseki, then the Army chief of staff, testified before Congress that it would take several hundred thousand troops to control Iraq after the invasion.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Shinseki, 66, was the Army's first four-star general of Japanese-American ancestry.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">the first Asian-American to lead the government's second largest agency, which has been criticized for underestimating the resources needed to care for returning Iraq war veterans.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">He is the recipient of two Purple Hearts for life-threatening injuries suffered in Vietnam.

Defense Secretary: Robert Gates <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Gates, 65, was selected by President Bush to be Defense Secretary in 2006, following Donald Rumsfeld's departure after the midterm elections.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">At the time, he was president of Texas A&M University.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he spent most of his career in the CIA and the intelligence community, rising from entry-level analyst all the way up to director from 1991-1993 for President George H.W. Bush.

__<span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Nominee __<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">

Commerce: **Judd Gregg** <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">working to secure our homeland and defend our nation against terrorism locally and nationally;
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">promoting responsible federal spending;
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">increasing America’s energy independence;
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">supporting policies that promote strong economic growth in New Hampshire and the nation;
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">protecting New Hampshire’s environment

Secretary of Labor: Hilda Solis <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;">· <span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Solis was raised in La Puente, California by immigrant parents from Nicaragua and Mexico. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;">· <span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">elected to the California State Assembly in 1992 and to the California State Senate in 1994. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;">· <span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">She was the first Hispanic woman to serve in the State Senate, and was re-elected there in 1998. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;">· <span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">She became known for her work toward environmental justice and was the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2000. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;">· <span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Solis defeated a long-time Democratic incumbent on the way to gaining election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;">· <span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN;">There she was known for her commitment to labor causes and continuing environmental work. She was re-elected easily to four additional terms in 2002 through 2008. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Solis is expected to champion green jobs at the Labor Department.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">She will be charged with implementing the Green Jobs Act, which she helped to push through Congress in 2007.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">She's been a long-time advocate for environmental justice and ally of the labor movement <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">