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Bush Names Four to New Team
Friday, December 29, 2000
George W. Bush nominated four new members of his Cabinet on Friday, filling
slots in the Education, Interior, Health and Human Services, and Veterans
Affairs departments.
Jeff Mitchell/Reuters
Friday: Tommy Thompson speaks after Bush announced four additions to his
Cabinet. Bush also announced appointments (pictured from his left) of Rod
Paige, Gale Norton and Anthony Principi.
Houston schools chief Rod Paige will serve as education secretary; former
Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton will take over at Interior; Wisconsin
Gov. Tommy Thompson will helm HHS; and Anthony Principi will lead Veterans
Affairs.
Bush has three remaining Cabinet posts to fill, which he said he hopes to do
by the end of next week. They include secretaries for the departments of
Energy, Labor and Transportation.
Bush announced his Cabinet nominees at a short Washington ceremony before
flying back to Austin, Texas, for the holiday weekend.
Education: Bush described Paige, widely credited with creating one of the
country's best urban school districts, as a "reformer, and someone who had a
record of results, who understands that it's important to set the highest of
high standards."
Test scores and academic performance improved under Paige's tenure as
superintendent of the 90 percent-minority Houston Independent School
District, the largest district in Texas and seventh-largest in the nation.
Paige said he will expand on the work he and Bush have done in Texas. "The
bottom line is this: When we set high standards for our schools and our
children, and when we give our schools and our children the support they need
and hold them accountable for results, public education can get the job
done," he said.
Interior: Norton, 46, previously served in President Reagan's Interior
Department, where she worked to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a
key item on the Bush agenda that has drawn fire from environmentalists.
She served two terms as Colorado attorney general and was barred by state law
from running for re-election in 1998. One of her major accomplishments in
that office was negotiating the national tobacco settlement.
AP/Wide World
Friday: Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is credited with a decline in the
state's welfare case load.
Norton said she will work with all levels of government to protect natural
resources.
"An entire one-third of our land is owned by the federal government," she
said. "Together with the other departments that own that land, the Department
of the Interior faces the challenge of seeing that our land is used in an
environmentally responsible way."
Health and Human Services: Once confirmed, Thompson, 59, would head one of
the government's largest departments, which includes the Food and Drug
Administration, Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs, and the Head
Start program for children. As well, it provides financial assistance to
low-income families.
Thompson is credited with lowering the number of people on welfare in his
state. Since he was first elected governor in 1986, the number of welfare
families in Wisconsin has fallen from more than 98,000 to just over 16,000.
David Zalubowski/AP
Friday: Former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton, nominated for interior
secretary, previously served in that department in the Reagan administration.
He pledged to make similar progress nationally on such social issues as
health-care reform, opportunities for the disabled and "helping the poor find
work and helping the working-poor find rewards in their efforts."
"These are all tough issues," Thompson said, "but solving tough issues is why
I got into this business, and I know it is why President-elect Bush sought
this job and why he traversed such a grueling road to get the opportunity to
lead this great nation."
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America immediately announced that it
would strongly oppose Thompson's confirmation.
Veterans Affairs: Bush said Principi, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, will
modernize the veterans' health care system "so all our veterans are treated
with dignity."
"Tony understands that one of our goals will be to make sure that claims will
be processed faster," he said.
Principi said the country must make sure its military personnel are provided
for.
"America now reaps the fruit of the service of 24 million veterans," he said.
"However, their service imposes upon us a reciprocal obligation. The
president-elect has charged me with the mission of transforming that
obligation into the benefits and services earned by generations of veterans."
— The Associated Press contributed to this report
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