BACKGROUND OF BUSH CABINET, 1^st Term

· Ashcroft (Justice): GOP Senator

· Veneman (Ag): CA GOP, Deputy Ag Sec for Bush I

· Norton (Interior): GOP Atty General, Colorado

· Powell (State): Jt Chiefs for Bush I

· Abraham (Energy): GOP Senator

· Thompson (HHS): GOP Gov

· Whitman (EPA): GOP Gov

· Rumsfield (Defense): Defense sec under Ford

· Snow (Treasury): worked with Cheney in Ford admin

· Evans (Commerce): GOP and Bush II fundraiser, oil man

· Ridge (Homeland Security): GOP Gov

· Choa (Labor): Heritage fellow, Dep Trans Sec Bush I

· Paige (Education): school superintendent, big Bush II supporter

· Martinez (HUD): worked for Jeb Bush

· Principi (Vet Affairs): acting Vet Sec under Bush I

· Cheney (VP): GOP rep, Sec of Defense for Bush I, Ford’s Chief of Staff

· Mineta (Transportation): Dem!

NEW FACES, 2^nd TERM

o Rice (State): worked for Bush 1; Stanford Provost; political scientist

o Gonzales (Attorney General): Bush’s WH Counsel; former GOP Sec of State (TX), TX SC

o Johanns (Ag): GOP Governor

o Guitierrez (Commerce): business executive

o Spellings (Education): worked in Bush’s TX ed dept

o Bodman (Energy): previously in Commerce Dept

o Leavitt (HHS): GOP Gov

o Chertoff (Homeland Security): federal judge (GOP nominee)

o Jackson (HUD): head of TX bureaucratic agencies