This page will provide a description Obama's Administration.
In order of succession to the Presidency:
- Vice President of the United States
- Department of State
- Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton
- http://www.state.gov
- Department of the Treasury
- Secretary Timothy F. Geithner
- http://www.treasury.gov
- Department of Defense
- Secretary Robert M. Gates
- http://www.defenselink.mil
- Department of Justice
- Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.
- http://www.usdoj.gov
- Department of the Interior
- Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar
- http://www.doi.gov
- Department of Agriculture
- Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack
- http://www.usda.gov
- Department of Commerce
- Secretary Gary F. Locke
- http://www.commerce.gov
- Department of Labor
- Secretary Hilda L. Solis
- http://www.dol.gov
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
- http://www.hhs.gov
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Secretary Shaun L.S. Donovan
- http://www.hud.gov
- Department of Transportation
- Secretary Raymond L. LaHood
- http://www.dot.gov
- Department of Energy
- Secretary Steven Chu
- http://www.energy.gov
- Department of Education
- Secretary Arne Duncan
- http://www.ed.gov
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Secretary Eric K. Shinseki
- http://www.va.gov
- Department of Homeland Security
- Secretary Janet A. Napolitano
- http://www.dhs.gov
The following positions have the status of Cabinet-rank:
- Council of Economic Advisers
- Chair Christina Romer
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Administrator Lisa P. Jackson
- http://www.epa.gov
- Office of Management & Budget
- Director Peter R. Orszag
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb
- United States Trade Representative
- Ambassador Ronald Kirk
- http://www.ustr.gov
- United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- Ambassador Susan Rice
- http://www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov/
- White House Chief of Staff
Administration CZARs
Czars are not vetted by Congress or even FBI
Czars activities are not transparent or open to congressional scrutiny
Wikipedia defines it this way: Originally, the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who claims the same rank as a Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch).
- AfPak special envoy: Richard Holbrooke
- Border Czar: Alan Bersin
- Car Czar: Steven Rattner
- Climate special envoy: Todd Stern
- Copywrite Czar:
- Cyber Czar: TBA
- Drug Czar: Gil Kerlikowske, former Seattle police chief
- Economic Czar: Paul A. Volcker
- Education Czar:
- Energy and Environment czar: Carol Browner
- Faith Based Czar: Joshua DuBois
- Government Performance Czar: Jeffrey Zients
- Great Lakes Czar: Cameron Davis
- Green Jobs Czar: Van Jones
- Guantanemo Closure Czar: Daniel Fried
- Health czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle
- Homeland Security Czar: John Brennan
- Housing Czar:
- Intelligence Czar: (Director of National Intelligence): Dennis Blair
- Mideast peace envoy: George Mitchell
- Mortgage Czar:
- Non-proliferation (WMD policy)czar: Gary Samore
- Pay Czar: Kenneth R. Feinberg
- Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia special advisor: Dennis Ross
- Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein
- Science Czar:
- Stimulus Accountability Czar: Earl Devaney
- Sudan special envoy: J. Scott Gration
- Technology (Infotech) Czar: Vivek Kundra
- Terrorism (I thought they didn't use that word) czar: John Brennan
- TARP czar> Herb Allison
- Urban Affairs czar: Adolfo Carrion, Jr.