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Last Updated: Nov 18th, 2008 - 09:54:27 |
Sara Wyant of Agri-Pulse says she has in her possession a week-old document that suggests front-runners for Cabinet nominations, senior White House staff and independent agency heads. Wyant says it appears to be on target because it correctly identified Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff, Robert Gibbs as press secretary and Ron Klain as chief of staff for Vice President-elect Joe Biden. Missing from that document is the name of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Suggested Secretaries of Agriculture are mostly the names already the subject of widespread speculation but contain a couple of surprises. They are former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack; National Farmers Union President Tom Buis, and three former members of Congress: Representatives Charles Stenholm of Texas, Jim Leach of Iowa, and Calvin Dooley of California.
The spread sheet also lists Dooley as a potential U.S. Trade Representative, along with Thomas McLarty III, former chief of staff in the Clinton Administration; Lael Brainard, Brookings Institution economist; Daniel Tarullo, former assistant Secretary of State for economic and business affairs; and Michael Wessel, a public affairs consultant.
Only two are mentioned for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Kathleen McGinty. McGinty chaired former President Clinton's Council on Environmental Quality and headed the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
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