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  Need biographical information on the Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee? Where did John Ashcroft get his law degree? Here it is with much more.
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
President George W. Bush
Vice-President Richard B. Cheney

CABINET
Mike Johanns, Secretary of Agriculture
Carlos Gutierrez, , Secretary of Commerce
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education
Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy
Michael Leavitt , Secretary of Health & Human Services
Michael Chernoff ,Secretary of Homeland Security
Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General
Elaine Chao , Secretary of Labor
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
Dirk Kempthorne , Secretary of the Interior
Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary of Transportation
Henry M. Paulson, Jr, Secretary of the Treasury
Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
Denny Hastert, House Speaker
John Boehner, Majority Leader
Roy Blunt, Majority Whip
Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader
Steny Hoyer, Minority Whip
Harry Reid,Senate Minority Leader
Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Bob Goodlatte, Chair Agriculture
Jerry Lewis, Chair Appropriations
Duncan Hunter, Chair Armed Services
Jim Nussle,Chair Budget
Howard P. McKeon, Chair Education & the Workforce
Joe L Barton,Chair Energy and Commerce
Michael G. Oxley, Chair Financial Services
Tom Davis, Chair Government Reform & Oversight
Vernon Ehlers, Chair House Administration
Peter Hoekstra, Chair House Permanent Select Committee Intelligence
Henry Hyde, Chair International Relations
F. James Sensenbrenner, Chair Judiciary
Richard Pombo, Chair Resources
David Dreier, Chair Rules
Sherwood L Boehlert, Chair Science
Don Manzullo, Chair Small Business
Doc Hastings, Chair Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics)
Don Young, Chair Transportation & Infrastructure
Steve Buyer, Chair Veterans Affairs
Bill Thomas, Chair Ways & Means
Peter King, Chair Select Committee on Homeland Security
Jim Saxon, Chair Joint Economic Committee
Bob Ney, Chair Joint Committee on Printing
Bill Thomas,Chair Joint Committee on Taxation

SENATE COMMITTEES
Saxby Chambliss, Chair Agriculture
Thad Cochran, Chair Appropriations
John Warner, Chair Armed Services
Richard C. Shelby, Chair Banking
Judd Gregg,Chair Budget
Ted Stevens, Chair Commerce, Science & Technology
Pete Domenici, Chair Energy & Natural Resources
James M. Inhofe , Chair Environment & Public Works
Charles E. Grassley, Chair Finance
Richard G. Lugar, Chair Foreign Relations
Susan Collins, Chair Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Arlen Specter Chair Judiciary
Mike Enzi, Chair Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Trent Lott, Chair Rules & Administration
Olympia J. Snowe, Chair Small Business
Larry Craig Chair Veterans Affairs

SPECIAL COMMITTEES
John McCain, Chair Indian Affairs
George V. Voinovich, Chair Ethics
Pat Roberts, Chair Intelligence
Gordon Smith, Chair Aging

JOINT COMMITTEES
Robert Bennett, Chair Joint Economic Committee
Ted Stevens, Chair Joint Committee on the Library of Congress
Saxby Chambliss, Chair Joint Committe on Printing
Chuck Grassley, Chair Joint Committee on Taxation


ADMINISTRATORS OF SELECTED FEDERAL AGENCIES
Centers for Disease Control,
Julie Louise Gerberding
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, Dr. Mark McClellan, Administrator
Central Intelligence Agency, Michael V. Hayden ,Director
Citizenship & Immigration Serivces, Eduardo Aguirre, Jr.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Sharon Brown-Hruska
Enivornmental Protection Agency, Stephen L. Johnson
Federal Aviation Administration, Marion C. Blakey
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Mueller
Federal Communications Commission,Kevin J. Martin
Federal Depository Insurance Corporation, Donald Powell
Federal Emergency Management Agency, R. David Paulison
Federal Reserve Board,Ben S. Bernanke
Federal Trade Commission, Deborah Platt Majoras,
Food & Drug Administration, Lester M. Crawford
General Services Administration, Stephen A. Perry
Government Printing Office-Public Printer, Bruce R. James
Internal Revenue Service, Mark W. Everson
Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington
National Aeronautics & Space Administration,Michael Griffin
National Institutes of Health, Elias Zerhoun
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Conrad Lautenbacher
National Science Foundation,Arden L. Bement, Jr.,
Office of Personnel Management, Kay Coles James
Securities and Exchange Commission, Christopher Cox
Small Business Administration, Hector V. Barreto
Social Security Administration, Jo Anne Barnhart
United States Mint, David Lebryk, Acting Director
United States Postal Service, John E. Potter
United States Secret Service, W. Ralph Basham

U.S. AMBASSADORS
U.S. Ambassadors

Biographical information on all U.S. ambassadors and heads of U.S. Misssions. Also includes list of former ambassadors.


JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
Richard B. Myers, Chair
Peter Pace, Vice Chair
Raymond T. Odierno, Assistant Chair
Peter J. Schoomaker, Chief of Staff - U.S. Army
Vern Clark, Chief of Naval Operations
John P. Jumper, Chief of Staff - U.S. Air Force
Michael W. Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps

COURTS
Judges of the U.S. Courts
All nine Justices 
WHO WAS WHO
Presidents Resource
Biographical Directory of U.S. Congress from 1774 - Present.
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