Obama's 2nd-term Cabinet takes shape
Updated: 2013-02-07 10:37
(Agencies)
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Commerce - vacant
Secretary John Bryson resigned in June for health reasons. Rebecca Blank, an economist, has been acting secretary since then.Possible replacements:
- US Export-Import Bank President Fred Hochberg
- Elizabeth Littlefield, president of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- Xerox Chief Executive Ursula Burns
- Steve Case - co-founder of America Online, is part of Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, an advisory group of corporate executives, labor leaders and academics.
- Daniel Doctoroff - chief executive of the financial news service Bloomberg and a former deputy mayor of New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, founder of the eponymous company.
- Jeff Zients - acting director of Obama's budget office and a former management consultant who could play a role should the president seek to reorganize the Commerce Department and the Office of the US Trade Representative into a consolidated, business-oriented government agency.
Labor - vacant
Secretary Hilda Solis, the first Latina to head a major US federal agency, announced plans to resign. It is not clear who is in the running to replace her.
Energy - could soon be vacant
Speculation is rampant that Steven Chu will soon resign after a tumultuous time at the helm of the Energy Department. Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, took the fall for the administration over a failed loan to solar-panel maker Solyndra, which Republicans trumpeted as a symbol of government waste and mismanagement.
Possible replacements:
- Christine Gregoire - a former Washington state governor, Gregoire has been mentioned as a potential candidate for three energy-related positions in Obama's Cabinet: the Environmental Protection Agency, Interior and Energy.
- Byron Dorgan - former North Dakota senator who was a member of the Senate Energy Committee and focuses on energy issues at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think tank.
- Bill Ritter - former Colorado governor who helped reform regulations on oil and gas in his state, and now advocates for responsible oil and gas drilling from a post at Colorado State University.
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