Subcabinet Appointments
A bunch of new appointments today:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals for key administration posts: Daniel B. Poneman, Deputy Secretary, Department of Energy; Fred P. Hochberg, President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States; Francisco “Frank” J. Sánchez, Under Secretary for International Trade, Department of Commerce; Miriam E. Sapiro, Deputy Trade Representative; Judith A. McHale, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Department of State; Philip J. “P.J.” Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Department of State; Bonnie D. Jenkins, Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs (with the Rank of Ambassador), Department of State; Thomasina Rogers, Chairman, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; Lorelei Boylan, Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor; David F. Heyman, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security; Andrew C. Weber, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs), Department of Defense; Stephen W. Preston, General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency; and Laurie Mikva, Board Member, Legal Services Corporation.
PJ is a colleague at CAP; don’t really know anything about the others.
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April 14th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Here’s the CIA General Counsel’s bio; sounds like he’s been in the thick of it for some time. Doesn’t look much like a friend of transparency seekers, alas.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
I remember Fred Hochberg. He’s gay and was rumored to be Obama’s pick for Commerce Secretary, which would’ve made him the first homosexual appointed to a cabinet-level position. Then it went to Bill Richardson and Fred ended up with that token Import-Export crap cause the gay community was complaining about a lack of administration jobs (along with Hispanics, blacks and every other constituency).
April 15th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Don’t you have anyone he can for the economic team? God DAMN Larry Summers.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Andrew Weber, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, is the composer of such works for the stage as Cats and Phantom of the Opera.
April 15th, 2009 at 4:40 am
Daniel B. Poneman is a Senior Fellow of The Forum for International Policy, Mr. Poneman has extensive expertise in the defense, energy and export control arenas. For nine years, he practiced law in Washington, D.C., assisting clients in a wide variety of regulatory and policy matters, including export controls, trade policy, and sanctions issues. From 1993 through 1996, Mr. Poneman served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council, with responsibilities for the development and implementation of U.S. policy in such areas as peaceful nuclear cooperation, missile technology and space-launch activities, sanctions determinations, chemical and biological arms control efforts and conventional arms transfer policy. During that period, he participated in negotiations and consultations with governments in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the former Soviet Union. Mr. Poneman joined the NSC staff in 1990 as Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, after service in the Department of Energy. He has served as a member of the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction as well as other federal advisory panels. He received A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University, and an M.Litt. in politics from Oxford University. Mr. Poneman is the author of books on nuclear energy policy and on Argentina, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Perhaps the difficulty in filling subcabinet appointments is that “subcabinet” is an off-putting term. It sounds a lot worse than the next level down, the Senior Executive Service.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Weber’s a sound nomination for the post. cf:
http://cns.miis.edu/cns/media/pr060629.htm
April 15th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Dear God, I hope that middle initial on that Weber nomination is right, because if it’s not, I (a) have to find DC housing quickly, (b) have to study a lot of chem in a hurry since I got a B in it in college, and (c) will have to “finesse” my video rental history for any congressional hearings. (Yeah, that’s my real name, with a different initial. Hope our mail doesn’t get mixed up…)