Return of the Clintonites?
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President-elect Barack Obama is weighing an array of Washington insiders and outsiders for top administration posts, according to Democratic officials. While Obama has signaled that he will make no Cabinet-level appointments immediately, Democrats and interest groups are circulating lists and offering recommendations to the Obama transition team. The lists include some Republicans, but also a significant number of former Clinton administration officials (whose names are in bold below):
Defense secretary
Former Navy secretary Richard Danzig.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.
Senator Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican and critic of the Iraq war who is retiring from the Senate.
Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Treasury secretary
Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Lawrence Summers, former treasury secretary and former Harvard University president.
Former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker.
Secretary of state
Senator Chuck Hagel.
Senator John F. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat and the 2004 presidential nominee.
Senator Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican and former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Governor Bill Richardson, a New Mexico Democrat and former UN ambassador and energy secretary.
Attorney general
Representative Artur Davis, an Alabama Democrat and member of the House Judiciary Committee.
Eric Holder, former deputy attorney general.
Governor Janet Napolitano, an Arizona Democrat.
Governor Deval Patrick, a Massachusetts Democrat and former assistant US attorney for civil rights.
Energy secretary
Governor Kathleen Sebelius, a Kansas Democrat.
Former representative Philip Sharp, an Indiana Democrat and president of Resources for the Future, a think tank.
EPA administrator
Ian Bowles, secretary of the Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
Lisa P. Jackson, commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection.
Kathleeen McGinty, former secretary of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection.
Mary Nichols, head of California's Air Resources Board.
Health and Human Services secretary
Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat.
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former Vermont governor.
Governor Kathleen Sebelius.
Transportation secretary
Mortimer Downey, former deputy transportation secretary.
Jane Garvey, former head of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Representative James Oberstar, a Minnesota Democrat and chairman of the House Transportation Committee.
Interior secretary Former governor Tony Knowles, an Alaska Democrat. Senator Ken Salazar, a Colorado Democrat and former executive director of Colorado's Natural Resources Department. Homeland security secretary Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat and chairwoman of the Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee. Former governor Tom Kean, a New Jersey Republican and cochairman of the 9/11 commission. James Lee Witt, former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. National security adviser James B. Steinberg, former deputy national security adviser. Education secretary Former governor Jim Hunt, a North Carolina Democrat. Colin Powell, a Republican former secretary of state and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Inez Tenenbaum, former South Carolina school superintendent. Agriculture secretary Representative Collin Peterson, a Minnesota Democrat and chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. Former governor Tom Vilsack, an Iowa Democrat. Office of budget and management director Jason Furman, Obama's campaign economic policy director. Gene Sperling, former national economic adviser. Representative John Spratt Jr., a South Carolina Democrat and chairman of the House Budget Committee. Housing and urban development secretary Valerie Jarrett, chairwoman and CEO of the Habitat Co. Labor secretary Representative George Miller, a California Democrat and chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union. SOURCE: Associated Press and Globe Staff
Bill Bratton, Los Angeles police chief and former Boston police commissioner.
Susan Rice, former assistant secretary of state for African affairs.
Arne Duncan, chief executive officer of Chicago public schools.
Tom Buis, president of the National Farmers Union.
Representative Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat.
Representative James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat.
Former representative David Bonior, a Michigan Democrat and member of Obama's economic advisory board.
