Department of State Advises President on foreign policy Negotiates agreements with foreign countries Represents the U.S. in international organizations Agencies: Foreign Service, Bureau of Diplomatic Security Hillary Clinton.
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Department of State Advises President on foreign policy Negotiates agreements with foreign countries Represents the U.S. in international organizations Agencies: Foreign Service, Bureau of Diplomatic Security Hillary Clinton Department of Treasury Produces coins and bills Collects taxes Manages public debt Agencies: *U.S. Mint *Internal Revenue Service (IRS) *Bureau of the Public Debt Timothy Geithner Department of Defense Provides military forces to protect our countries security Agencies: Joint Chiefs of Staff Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Leon Panetta Department of Justice Legal advice to President Represents U.S. in Court Enforces Federal laws Operates Federal Prisons Agencies: Criminal Division, Civil Rights Division, FBI, U.S. Marshals, ATF Eric Holder Attorney General Department of Interior Manages national parks, public lands, and wildlife refuges Assists Native Americans with their affairs Operates hydroelectric power plants Agencies: *U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service *Bureau of Indian Affairs *National Park Service Ken Salazar Department of Agriculture Inspects food Manages national forests Administers food stamp and school lunch programs Agencies: Farm Service Agency, Food and Nutrition Service, Rural Development Tom Vilsack Department of Commerce Grants patents and registers trademarks Conducts the CENSUS Agencies: Bureau of Census, Patent and Trademark Office John Bryson Department of Labor Enforces laws on MINIMUM WAGES, maximum hours, working conditions Operates job training programs Administers unemployment insurance, and workers compensation programs Agencies: Bureau of Labor Statistics Hilda Solis Department of Health & Human Services Administers Medicare and Medicaid Conducts programs to prevent & control disease Enforces pure food and drug laws Agencies: Food & Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health Kathleen Sebelius Department of Housing & Urban Development Enforces fair housing laws Operates home-financing and public housing programs Agencies: Office of Housing Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Government National Mortgage Association Shaun Donovan Department of Transportation Administers programs to promote and regulate highways, mass transit, railroads, waterways, air travel, and oil and gas pipelines Agencies: Federal Highway Administration Aviation and Railroad Administration Maritime Administration Ray LaHood Department of Energy Promotes production of renewable energy, fossil fuels, and nuclear energy Conducts nuclear weapons research and production Agencies: Office of Nuclear Energy, Science, and technology, Regional Power Administration Steven Chu Department of Education Conducts educational research Administers federal aid to schools Agencies: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Postsecondary Education Arne Duncan Department of Veterans Affairs Administers benefits, pensions, and medical programs to Veterans of the armed forces Agencies: Veterans Benefits Administration, Veterans Health Administration Eric Shinseki Department of Homeland Security Border and transportation security Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense Emergency preparedness and response Agencies: Coast Guard Secret Service, TSA U.S. Citizenship and immigration services, customs enforcement Janet Napolitano Click the picture for video The Situation Room Click the picture for video White House Staff Chief of Staff Bill Daley Deputy Chief of Staff Nancy-Ann DeParle Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco Counselor to the President Peter Rouse Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett Senior Advisor David Plouffe WHITE HOUSE STAFF Chief of Staff-- William Dailey CHIEF OF STAFF Mr. Daley is the Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. Previously, Mr. Daley served as Vice Chair, Chairman of the Midwest Region, and head of the Office of Corporate Responsibility for JP Morgan Chase. Mr. Daley served as President of SBC Communications from 2001 – 2004. Mr. Daley was the campaign chairman for Al Gore’s presidential run in 2000. Prior to that, Mr. Daley served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1997-2000, overseeing a department of more than 40,000 people. Mr. Daley also served as Special Counsel to President Clinton in 1993, focusing on international trade issues. Earlier in his career, Mr. Daley was a partner at the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt; was President and Chief Operating Officer of Amalgamated Bank of Chicago; and was a lawyer at the firm of Daley and George. He has also served on the boards of a number of corporate, academic, medical, charitable and civic organizations. Mr. Daley was born in Chicago, Illinois where he also completed his education including a B.A. from Loyola University and a law degree from John Marshall Law School. He is married to Ms. Bernadette Keller. Executive Office of the President Every day, the President of the United States is faced with scores of decisions, each with important consequences for America’s future. To provide the President with the support that he or she needs to govern effectively, the Executive Office of the President (EOP) was created in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The EOP has responsibility for tasks ranging from communicating the President’s message to the American people to promoting our trade interests abroad. Overseen by the White House Chief of Staff, the EOP has traditionally been home to many of the President’s closest advisors. The following entities exist within the Executive Office of the President: Council of Economic Advisers Council on Environmental Quality Executive Residence National Security Staff Office of Administration Office of Management and Budget Office of National Drug Control Policy Office of Science and Technology Policy Office of the United States Trade Representative Office of the Vice President White House Office In addition, the following entities exist within the White House Office: Office of the First Lady Office of the Social Secretary Domestic Policy Council Office of Legislative Affairs Office of National AIDS Policy Office of Management and Administration Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships White House Personnel Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation White House Operations National Security Advisor Telephone Office National Economic Council Visitors Office Oval Office Operations Office of Cabinet Affairs Office of Presidential Personnel Office of the Chief of Staff Office of Public Engagement and Office of Communications Intergovernmental Affairs Office of the Press Secretary Office of Public Engagement Council on Women and Girls Media Affairs Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Research Office of Urban Affairs Speechwriting Office of Scheduling and Advance Office of Digital Strategy Office of the Staff Secretary Presidential Correspondence Executive Clerk Records Management Office of the White House Counsel FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN Ben S. Bernanke began a second term as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on February 1, 2010. Dr. Bernanke also serves as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the System's principal monetary policymaking body. He originally took office as Chairman on February 1, 2006, when he also began a 14-year term as a member of the Board. His second term as Chairman ends January 31, 2014, and his term as a Board member ends January 31, 2020. Before his appointment as Chairman, Dr. Bernanke was Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, from June 2005 to January 2006. BEN BERNANKE He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2002 to 2005; a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia (1987-89), Boston (198990), and New York (1990-91, 1994-96); and a member of the Academic Advisory Panel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1990-2002). From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Bernanke was the Class of 1926 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He was the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and Chair of the Economics Department at the university from 1996 to 2002. Dr. Bernanke had been a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton since 1985. Before arriving at Princeton, Dr. Bernanke was an Associate Professor of Economics (1983-85) and an Assistant Professor of Economics (1979-83) at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His teaching career also included serving as a Visiting Professor of Economics at New York University (1993) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1989-90). Dr. Bernanke has published many articles on a wide variety of economic issues, including monetary policy and macroeconomics, and he is the author of several scholarly books and two textbooks. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sloan Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Bernanke served as the Director of the Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and as a member of the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee. In July 2001, he was appointed Editor of the American Economic Review. Dr. Bernanke's work with civic and professional groups includes having served two terms as a member of the Montgomery Township (N.J.) Board of Education. Dr. Bernanke was born in December 1953 in Augusta, Georgia, and grew up in Dillon, South Carolina. He received a B.A. in economics in 1975 from Harvard University (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in economics in 1979 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. White House PRESS SECRETARY JAY CARNEY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xATrFN-hMWU&feature=relmfu