Bush Close to Completing Cabinet With Reappointments (Update3) Bloomberg

[Whoa_Nelly]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aiCbimuOQ8Go&refer=top_world_news

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush is close to completing his second-term Cabinet, reappointing four secretaries today. The group of 15 department heads will include a record nine new members.

Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta, who served as commerce secretary to President Bill Clinton, will remain in the Bush administration along with Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao, Interior Secretary Gail Norton and Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson, Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said in Washington.

Administration officials who helped shepherd some of Bush's biggest initiatives are moving into the Cabinet after the departure of recognizable faces including Secretary of State Colin Powell and Attorney General John Ashcroft. Bush nominated National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to take Powell's job, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to take Ashcroft's, and Margaret Spellings, an aide who helped with the No Child Left Behind Act, to replace Education Secretary Roderick Paige.

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Bush today nominated Jim Nicholson, the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and former Republican National Committee chairman, to replace Anthony Principi as veterans affairs secretary.

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[davidinalameda]

1. I thought Mineta was having health problems

I was surprised to hear that he's staying

[MasonJar]

2. Is there anyone who cares? They are all freaks anyway.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Know who is where and who they are

It's important to keep up-to-date on what the Chimp misadministration is doing.