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WHO'S WHO IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT


Executive Branch | Cabinet | Congressional Committees | House of Representatives | Senate | Special | Joint | Administrators of Selected Federal Agencies | Joint Chiefs of Staff | Supreme Court | Who Was Who | Megasites

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Need biographical information on the Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee? Where did Eric Holder get his law degree? Here it is with much more.

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EXECUTIVE BRANCH

President Barack H. Obama

Vice-President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

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CABINET

Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture

Eric Holder, Attorney General

Gary Locke, Secretary of Commerce

Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense

Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education

Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy

Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health & Human Services

Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security

Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing & Urban Development

Kenneth Salazar, Secretary of the Interior

Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor

Hillary R. Clinton, Secretary of State

Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation

Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury

Eric Shineki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

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CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP

Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker

Steny Hoyer, House Majority Leader

James E. Clyburn, House Majority Whip

John Boehner, House Minority Leader

Eric Cantor, Minority Whip

Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader

Dick Durbin, Senate Majority Whip

Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader

John Kyl, Senate Minority Whip

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CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Collin Peterson, Chair Agriculture

David Obey, Chair Appropriations

Ike Skelton, Chair Armed Services

John Spratt, Chair Budget

George Miller, Chair Education & the Workforce

Henry Waxman ,Chair Energy and Commerce

Barney Frank, Chair Financial Services

Howard Berman, Chair Foreign Affairs

Bennie Thompson, Chair Select Committee on Homeland Security

Edolphus Towns, Chair Government Reform & Oversight

Robert Brady, Chair House Administration

Silvestre Reyes, Chair House Permanent Select Committee Intelligence

John Conyers, Chair Judiciary

Nick Rahall, Chair Natural Resources

Louise Slaughter, Chair Rules

Bart Gordon, Chair Science

Nydia Velazquez, Chair Small Business

Zoe Lofgren, Chair Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics)

James Oberstar, Chair Transportation & Infrastructure

Bob Filner, Chair Veterans Affairs

Charles Rangel, Chair Ways & Means

Carol Maloney,Vice-Chair Joint Economic Committee

Charles Rangel, Chair Joint Committee on Taxation

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SENATE COMMITTEES

Blanch Lincoln, Chair Agriculture

Daniel Inouye, Chair Appropriations

Carl Levin, Chair Armed Services

Christopher Dodd, Chair Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs

Kent Conrad, Chair Budget

Jay Rockefeller, Chair Commerce, Science & Transportation

Jeff Bingaman, Chair Energy & Natural Resources

Barbara Boxer, Chair Environment & Public Works

Max Baucus, Chair Finance

John Kerry, Chair Foreign Relations

Tom Harkin, Chair Health, Education, Labor & Pensions

Joseph Lieberman, Chair Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs

Patrick Leahy Chair Judiciary

Charles Schumer, Chair Rules & Administration

Mary Landrieu, Chair Small Business & Entrepreneurship

Daniel Akaka Chair Veterans Affairs

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SPECIAL COMMITTEES

Byron Dorgan, Chair Indian Affairs

Tim Johnson, Chair Ethics

Diane Feinstein, Chair Intelligence

Herbert Kohl, Chair Aging

Edward Markey, Chair Global Warming

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JOINT COMMITTEES

Charles E. Schumer, Chair Joint Economic Committee

Dianne Feinstein, Chair Joint Committee on the Library of Congress

Robert Brady, Chair Joint Committee on Printing

Max Baucus, Chair Joint Committee on Taxation

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ADMINISTRATORS OF SELECTED FEDERAL AGENCIES

Centers for Disease Control,

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, , Administrator

Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta ,Director

Citizenship & Immigration Services, Emilio Gonzalez, Director

Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, Commissioner

Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa P. Jackson

Federal Aviation Administration, J. Randolph Babbitt, Administrator

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller,

Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski

Federal Depository Insurance Corporation, Shelia Bair, Director

Federal Emergency Management Agency, William Craig Fugate, Administrator

Federal Reserve Board, Ben S. Bernanke

Federal Trade Commission, John Liebowitz, Chairman

Food & Drug Administration,

General Services Administration, Paul F. Prouty, Acting Administrator

Government Printing Office-Public Printer, Robert C. Tapella

Internal Revenue Service, Douglas Shulman, Commissioiner

Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington

National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Charles F. Bolden, Jr.

National Institutes of Health, Raynard S. Kington, Acting Director

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Jane Lubchenco, Administrator

National Science Foundation, Arden L. Bement, Jr., Director

Office of Personnel Management, John Berry, Director

Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Schapiro, Commissioner

Small Business Administration, Karen Gordon Mills, Administrator

Social Security Administration, Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner

United States Mint, Edmund C. Moy, Director

United States Postal Service, David C. Williams

United States Secret Service, Mark Sullivan

U.S. AMBASSADORS

U.S. Ambassadors

Biographical information on all U.S. ambassadors and heads of U.S. Misssions. Also includes list of former ambassadors.

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JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

Michael Mullen, Chair

James Cartwright, Vice Chair

George W. Casey Jr., Chief of Staff - U.S. Army

Gary Roughhead, Chief of Naval Operations

Norton A. Schwartz, Chief of Staff - U.S. Air Force

James T. Conway, Commandant of the Marine Corps

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COURTS

Judges of the U.S. Courts

All nine Justices

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WHO WAS WHO

Presidents Resource

Biographical Directory of U.S. Congress from 1774 - Present.

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MEGASITES

Governor E-Mail Addresses and Web Sites University of Michigan

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