
In May, when Obama announced ambitious plans to require carmakers to produce more-efficient vehicles, Browner was assigned to explain the details. Insiders say that Browner, ...
Carrion, a former Bronx Borough president and city council member, came in February to a newly created position to coordinate urban issues. He has been ...
In a situation perhaps unique among Obama's top appointees, Jones's fate did not rest on the outcome of the 2008 election. One of his biggest ...
When Obama created a climate-control czar, it raised the question of the status of the Council on Environmental Quality. "To some extent, nothing has changed," ...
Panetta is a familiar face, but he finds himself in an unfamiliar position. The former House Budget Committee chairman and chief of staff in the ...
Most Agriculture secretaries grew up on a farm or worked in agribusiness. Vilsack, 58, instead got his farming credentials by serving as governor of Iowa ...
Michener, 45, was a surprise choice to head the FAS, the agency that analyzes agricultural production in other countries, promotes the sale of U.S. agricultural ...
Locke gets kudos from the business community for reaching out to Commerce's principal allies soon after his confirmation. "He is political in a good way," ...
Varney is the administration's point person on high-tech antitrust matters, which is an unexpected spot for someone whose first major job after college was a ...