Obama Transition

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I meant to post this Sunday but for some reason didn't. As a result, it is already slightly dated.

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The following are excerts from a memo prepared by a Washington DC group. I don't have the date of this memo, however I just obtained it today and AP is reporting that Governor Richardson will be the Sec. of Commerce. The memo covered all Depts. plus White House and VP staff. Here are the excerpts relevant to the issues posted on The Westerner:


...The Transition Team is divided into two areas: Personnel and Policy. The Personnel division will be tasked with finding, vetting and hiring Cabinet Secretaries, sub-Cabinet appointees and other Obama Administration staff. The Policy division will consist of policy experts from across the country, who will advise President-Elect Obama during the transition period and develop policies to be implemented following Obama's Inauguration.

We understand that the transition effort has been organized into roughly a dozen teams. The ethics code governing the process prohibits staff from working on subjects that could be deemed a financial conflict of interests, either to that member or that member’s family....

The following is a compilation of top Obama campaign operatives, Senate staff and names floated in press circles as likely participants in the Transition Team and potential high-level appointees in an Obama Administration.

This list is, by no means, official, definitive or exhaustive. Although the Transition Senior Staff has been finalized, all other names are merely educated guesses.

The phone number for the transition headquarters is 202-540-3000. The official website for the transition is www.change.gov...

• Energy and Natural Resources Team Leads
o David J. Hayes. (LEAD)
o Bart Chilton. Department of Agriculture
o Carole Jett. Department of Agriculture
o Elgie Holstein. Department of Energy
o Elizabeth Montoya. Department of Energy
o Sue Tierney. Department of Energy
o Cecilia V. Estolano. EPA
o Lisa Jackson. EPA
o Robert Sussman. EPA
o Rose McKinney-James. FERC
o Keith Harper. Department of Interior
o John Leshy. Department of Interior
• Energy and Natural Resources Team
Department of Agriculture, Douglas Jake Caldwell
Department of Agriculture, Carol Clifford
Department of Agriculture, David Lazarus
Department of Agriculture, Mary McNeil
Department of Agriculture, Karen Stuck
Department of Agriculture, Michael Taylor
Department of Agriculture, Dallas Tonsager
Department of Agriculture, Christopher Wood
Department of Energy, Henry Atkinson
Department of Energy, Lucy Blake
Department of Energy, Carolyn Green
Department of Energy, Skila Harris
Department of Energy, Cynthia Quarterman
Department of Energy, Gregory Watson
Department of the Interior, Robert Anderson
Department of the Interior, Deanna Archuleta
Department of the Interior, John Echohawk
Department of the Interior, Edward Farquhar
Department of the Interior, Molly McUsic
Department of the Interior, Shirley Neff
Department of the Interior, Renee Stone
Department of the Interior, Mark Van Putten
EPA, Julie Anderson
EPA, Kenneth Berlin
EPA, Jonathan Cannon
EPA, John Darin
EPA, Daniel Esty
EPA, Jonathan Fox
EPA, Janice Mazurek
EPA, Amelia Salzman
EPA, Nancy Sutley
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Phillip Niedzielski-Eichner

Possible Cabinet/Department Appointments

Agriculture
• Tom Vilsack. Former Governor of Iowa
• Collin Peterson. Congressman from Minnesota
• Tom Buis. National Farmers Union.
• Charles Stenholm. Former Congressman from Texas.
• Jim Leach. Former Congressman from Iowa.
• Calvin "Cal" Dooley. Former Congressman from California.
• Stephanie Herseth Sandlin. Congresswoman from South Dakota
Environment/Energy
• Carol Browner. President Clinton's EPA Administrator.
• John Podesta. Executive Director of the Center for American Progress; former Clinton Chief of Staff
• Ed Rendell. Governor of Pennsylvania.
• Daniel Esty. Yale environmental law professor; EPA under Bush.
• Daniel Kammen. U of California (Berkeley) energy & public policy professor
• Elgie Holstein. Campaign senior energy policy advisor.
• Robert Sussman. Center for American Progress; EPA under President Clinton; Latham & Watkins.
• Jason Grumet. Heads campaign environment policy committee; president of Bipartisan Policy Center; former Executive Director of the National Commission on Energy Policy.
• Howard Learner. Executive Director of Environmental Law and Policy Center.
• Ken Berlin. Attorney at Skaaden, Arps.
• Julie Anderson. Bipartisan Environmental Policy Center.
• Kathleen McGinty. Chair of Pennsylvania State Department of Environmental Protection; Former Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality.
• Jonathan Lash. President of the World Resources Institute.
• Brad Campbell. Former Commissioner of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection; EPA under President Clinton and White House Council on Environmental Quality.
• Frank Loy. State Department under Presidents Clinton, Carter and Johnson; boards of several national green groups.
• Heather Zichal. Former Kerry Legislative Director and Energy policy advisor.
• Todd Atkinson. Senator Obama’s energy policy aide.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger. Governor of California (Possible Secretary of Energy) (Has said he will not accept position).
• Jeff Bingaman. Senator from New Mexico (Possible Secretary of Energy) (Has said he will not accept position).
• Lincoln Chafee. Former senator from Rhode Island. (Possible EPA Administrator)
• Dan Reicher. Former Assistant Secretary of Energy under President Clinton.
• Steve Westly. Former California State Controller.
• Jim Rogers. Duke Energy CEO.
• John Leshy. Former Department of the Interior Solicitor.
• Donald J. Barry. Former Assistant Secretary of Fish, Wildlife and Parks at Interior.
• David B. Sandalow. Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment and Science.
• Kathleen Sebelius. Governor of Kansas.
• Al Gore. Former Vice President.
• Jennifer Granholm. Governor of Michigan.
• Mary Nichols. Chair of California's Air Resources Board.
• Lisa P. Jackson. Commissioner of New Jersey EPA.
• Philip Sharp. Former Congressman from Indiana; president of Resources for the Future.
• Jerry McNerney. Congressman from California.
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
• Ian Bowles. Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs of Massachusetts.
• Franz Wuerfmannsdobler. Aide to Senator Dorgan.
Interior
• Jay Inslee. Congressman from Washington.
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• George Miller. Congressman from California.
• Tony Knowles. Former Governor of Alaska.
• Bill Richardson. Former Energy Secretary under President Clinton, Governor of New Mexico.
• Ken Salazar. Senator from Colorado.
• John Kitzhaber. Medical doctor and former Governor of Oregon.
• John Leshy. Former Department of the Interior Solicitor.
• Brian Schweitzer. Governor of Montana.
• Jamie Rappaport Clark. Executive Vice President of Defenders of Wildlife.
• Mike Thompson. Representative from California.