Hospitals & Asylums
A. The development of the second term CNN:
Bush Cabinet is progressing well with only three remaining
controversies:
a.
The Department of Defense where Donald Rumsfield should be
replaced by former Secretary of State Collin Powell or former Secretary of
Veteran’s Affairs Anthony J. Principi.
b.
The Department of Homeland Security where Tom Ridges needs
to be replaced by a candidate nominated by FEMA and confirmed by USCIS before
being seconded by the President and Senate.
c.
The Federal Attorney General (FAG) that should be abolished
and authority transferred to Deputy Attorney General (DAG) James B. Comey to
improve relations with the International Court of Justice.
1. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
The secretary oversees the Department
of Agriculture, which President Lincoln created in 1862. The USDA provides
information to the country's farmers and oversees safety of food products.
Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns
Nominated
December 2; would replace Ann Veneman if confirmed by Senate
Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns, 54, who
was raised on a dairy farm, was the first Republican governor in Nebraska to
win re-election in more than four decades.
Ann M. Veneman, January 2001 to present
Resignation announced November 15
Ann M. Veneman is an attorney who
served as deputy agriculture secretary in President George H.W. Bush's
administration.
2. SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
The Department of Commerce, which was
established in 1913 by President Wilson, is responsible for promoting American
business.
Carlos Gutierrez
Nominated
November 29; would replace Don Evans if confirmed by Senate
Cuban-born Carlos Gutierrez, 51, has
been chief executive officer of Kellogg Co. since 1999. He started at the
company selling cereal out of a van in Mexico City.
Don Evans, appointed January 2001
Resignation announced November 9, 2004
Don Evans was chairman of President
Bush's first presidential campaign and has been the president's chief
fund-raiser since 1978. He is a former businessman in the Texas oil industry.
3. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
The secretary oversees the U.S.
military. The Department of Defense was created in 1947 when President Truman
merged the War and Navy departments with the new U.S. Air Force.
The lead candidates who have not yet expressed interest are former Secretary of
State Collin Powell or former Secretary of Veteran’s Affairs Anthony J.
Principi.
Donald Rumsfeld, January 2001 to present
Donald
Rumsfeld was defense secretary in the Ford administration and is a former
congressman from Illinois. During his tenure in the Bush administration, he has
conducted wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
4. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION
The secretary oversees the Department
of Education, which was created in 1979 when President Carter split the
Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Margaret Spellings
Nominated
November 17; would replace Rod Paige if confirmed by Senate
Margaret Spellings is a longtime
adviser to President Bush who has served as a White House domestic policy
adviser since 2001. She was a key figure in drafting the "No Child Left
Behind" education initiative.
Rod Paige, appointed January 2001
Resignation announced November 15
Rod Paige was superintendent of public
schools in Houston, Texas, from 1994 to 2000.
5. SECRETARY OF ENERGY
The secretary oversees the Department
of Energy, which President Carter established in 1977.
Samuel Bodman
Nominated
December 10; would replace Spencer Abraham if confirmed by Senate
Samuel Bodman is deputy secretary of
the Treasury Department and was the deputy secretary at the Commerce
Department. An engineer and one-time professor at MIT, Bodman also has been
president of an investment firm and head of an industrial company.
Spencer Abraham, January 2001 to
present
Resignation announced November 15
Before he was appointed energy
secretary, Spencer Abraham was a U.S. senator from Michigan for one term and a
top aide to Vice President Dan Quayle.
6. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
The Department of Health and Human
Services was established under President Carter in 1979. Agencies such as the
National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
fall under the department's authority.
Michael Leavitt
Nominated
December 13, 2004; would replace Tommy Thompson if confirmed by Senate
Michael Leavitt, who has served as EPA
Administrator since November 2003, is a former governor of Utah.
Tommy Thompson, appointed January 2001
Resignation announced December 3
Before becoming health and human
services secretary, Tommy Thompson was governor of Wisconsin, where he
overhauled the state's welfare system with the Wisconsin Works program.
7. SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
The Department of Homeland Security
was established in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks. The department
is responsible for coordinating a national strategy to protect the United
States against future attacks.
Michael Chertoff
Nominated
January 11; would replace Tom Ridge if confirmed by Senate
Chertoff, a former prosecutor, is a
judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was assistant attorney
general in charge of the U.S. Justice Department's criminal division from 2001
to 2003, playing a prominent role in prosecuting terror suspects after the
September 11, 2001, attacks. Must be tried for failing to prosecute the
omission of Theodore B. Olson’s birthday on 9-11
when his wife died that led to the decision to go to war. Mr. Chertoff’s trial primarily
involves trying his detainees and double checking flight records to check the
accuracy of the 9-11 Commission that may have failed to prosecute what appears
to be an inside job by someone with a vendetta against the Solicitor General
motivated by War on Terrorism financing.
The Chertoff news release is studied at the end of this article. Someone from FEMA or US Citizenship and
Immigration would be more diplomatic.
Tom
Ridge, appointed October 2001
Resignation announced November
30
As the first secretary of homeland
security, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge has overseen the development of a
terror threat advisory system and new security measures at airports and
borders.
Bernard
Kerik
Nominated December 3; withdrew from
consideration December 10
Former New York City police
commissioner Bernard Kerik cited the questionable immigration status of a
person he had employed as a nanny and housekeeper when he withdrew his name
from consideration
8. SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
President
Johnson created the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1965 as part
of his "Great Society" effort to eradicate poverty.
Alphonso
Jackson, January 2004 to present
Alphonso
Jackson was named secretary after serving as deputy secretary since June 2001.
He is the former president of a Texas utility company and former public housing
director in Washington.
Mel
Martinez, January 2001 to December 2003
Mel
Martinez left his post as HUD secretary before announcing a run for a U.S.
Senate seat from Florida. Martinez won the November 2004 election and will be
the first Cuban-American member of the U.S. Senate.
9. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
The Department of the Interior,
created in 1849 by President Taylor, oversees such federal agencies as the
National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
Gale Norton, January 2001 to present
Gale Norton, a former Colorado
attorney general, is the first woman to head the Department of the Interior.
Norton has drawn criticism from environmental groups and others over her
support for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
10. ATTORNEY GENERAL
The attorney general is the chief law
enforcement officer in the country and oversees the Department of Justice,
which President Grant established in 1870 at the expense of private petitioners.
Alberto
Gonzales Nominated
November 10, 2004 is too criminally
convicted and should be replaced by Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey and the
entire office of Federal Attorney General (FAG) abolished as it obstructs our
nation’s relationship with the International Court of Justice HA-6-1-05 As White House counsel since January 2001, Gonzales has been criminally
involved in many of the issues that he would confront as attorney general,
including the legal handling of detainees in the war on terror. He is a former
Texas Supreme Court justice and Texas secretary of state. As a Texan with the world’s worst human rights
record in the penal system and red handed henchman in the military detention
operations the Senate has found to convict him of treason, homicide, slavery
and torture and the Supreme Court must explain why he is not eligible for
Attorney General although he is eligible for Supreme Court although he has
declared that he is “not running for
Justice of the Supreme Court”. Gonzales must realize that his human rights
record makes him a threat as a General but educable as Supreme Court
Justice. As Carlos Gutierrez is likely
to become Secretary of Commerce there is no need for another latino for the
ethnic equality of the Cabinet. Gonzael
is directed to be the first Latino Justice of the Supreme Court. Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey is
the most likely alternative candidate thanks to the acceptance of his
exclusively fair decisions by the press and judiciary.
John
Ashcroft, appointed January 2001
Resignation announced November
9
Ashcroft has been a key defender of
the USA Patriot Act, a controversial federal law aimed to aid the government's
anti-terrorism efforts. Ashcroft was an
assassination suspect when he was wrongfully confirmed in 2001. Ashcroft has been the principal perpetrator
of treason and violator of the 6th Amendment through covert
operations and due to the suppression of information regarding the fact that
Theodore B. Olson former Solicitor General’s birthday was 11
September 1940 although it was made public that his wife Barbara died creating
a situation that inclines one to believe that the perpetrators of the suicide
attacks were knowledgeable of the activities of the newly elected Cabinet and
it was in fact an inside job executed by Ashcroft. We need to be very careful in appointing a replacement who
upholds human rights and knows how to get out of jail. The Patriot Act has been superceded by the S.2845
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004
11. SECRETARY OF LABOR
The Labor Department, created in 1913
when President Wilson divided the Commerce and Labor departments, administers
federal labor laws that govern, for example, minimum wage, unemployment
insurance and protection from employment discrimination.
Elaine Chao, January 2001 to present
Elaine Chao, a former Peace Corps
director, is the first Asian-American woman to hold a Cabinet post.
12. SECRETARY OF STATE
The State Department is the federal
agency responsible for foreign affairs. Thomas Jefferson was named the first
secretary of state in 1789.
Condoleezza
Rice
Nominated
November 16, 2004; replaces Colin Powell after confirmation by Senate January 2005
Condoleezza Rice, who has served as
national security adviser during President Bush's first term, is a former
provost of Stanford University. She was an adviser on Soviet affairs to President
George H.W. Bush.
Colin Powell, appointed January 2001
Resignation announced November 15
Colin Powell served in the U.S. Army
for 35 years, eventually becoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from
1989 to 1993.
13. SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION
The secretary oversees the nation's
road, rail, air and sea transit systems. President Johnson created the
Department of Transportation in 1966.
Norman Mineta, January 2001 to
present
Democrat Norman Mineta was
commerce secretary in the Clinton administration. Before taking that post, he
was a congressman from California for 21 years, including a stint as chairman
of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee. Chronic security
problems in transportation demand that a new Secretary be appointed although
there is little suspicion regarding Mineta that seems to suffer from a lack of
judicial independence.
14. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
The Treasury Department oversees U.S.
economic and financial systems. Federal agencies that fall under its authority
include the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Mint.
John Snow, January 2003 to present
John Snow is a former chairman and
chief executive officer of transportation company CSX Corp.
Paul O'Neill, January 2001 to December
2002
Paul O'Neill was chairman of Alcoa
Corp. before taking charge of the Treasury Department. He was forced out of his
post in 2003 amid a shake-up of the president's economic team.
15. SECRETARY OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
The Department of Veterans Affairs serves U.S. veterans and
their families through a network of hospitals and support organizations.
Ambassador Jim Nicholson
Nominated
December 9; would replace Anthony Principi if confirmed by Senate
Jim Nicholson has served as U.S.
ambassador to the Holy See, the government of the Roman Catholic Church in
Vatican City, since August 2001. He is a retired colonel in the Army Reserve
and former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Anthony Principi,
appointed January 2001
Resignation announced December 8
Anthony Principi was deputy secretary
of veterans affairs in President George H.W. Bush's administration. He later
was named acting secretary.