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USA

FACTS ABOUT THE USA
Government and Politics

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Biographies of Government Officials

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White House:

President Bill Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/Hope.html

First Lady Hillary Clinton
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/HILLARY_Bio.html

Vice President Al Gore
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/html/Bio.html

Tipper Gore
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/VP_Wife/megbio.html

Cabinet of the United States and Other Key Executive Officials:

Secretary of Agriculture - Dan Glickman
http://www.usda.gov/agencies/gallery/glickman.htm

Secretary of Commerce - William M. Daley
http://www.doc.gov/misc/daley.htm

Secretary of Defense - William S. Cohen
http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/secdef_bio.html

Secretary of Education - Richard W. Riley
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OS/riley.html

Secretary of Energy - Federico F. Pena
http://www.dot.gov/ost/secretary.html

Secretary of Health and Human Services - Donna E. Shalala
http://www.hhs.gov/about/bios/dhhssec.html

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Andrew M. Cuomo
http://www.hud.gov/cuomo.html

Secretary of the Interior - Bruce Babbitt
http://www.doi.gov/bab_bio.html

Attorney General (Department of Justice) - Janet Reno
http://www.usdoj.gov/bios/jreno.html

Secretary of Labor - Alexis M. Herman
http://www.dol.gov/dol/opa/public/sec/secbio.htm

Secretary of State - Madeleine Korbel Albright
http://secretary.state.gov/www/albright/albright.html

Secretary of Transportation - Rodney E. Slater
http://www.dot.gov/affairs/slatebio.htm

Secretary of the Treasury - Robert E. Rubin
http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/officers/rubin.html

Veterans Administration - Hershel W. Gober
http://www.va.gov/biographies/goberact.htm

Others in the Executive Branch:

U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations - Bill Richardson
http://www.undp.org/missions/usa/rich1.htm

Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy - Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/about/bio.html

U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky
http://www.ustr.gov/people/Ambassador/barshefsky.html

National Security Advisor - Samuel Berger
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/NSC/html/bergerbio.html

Legislative contacts:

• Congressional Directory 105^th Congress
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/congdir.html
• United States Congress House Directory 105th Congress 1997-98
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/congress/hou97.txt
• United States Congress Senate Directory 105th Congress 1997-98
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/congress/sen97.txt
• Congressional E-Mail Addresses and Web Sites - 105th Congress 1997/98
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/congress/conemail.txt

Judicial Branch:

Justice Breyer
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/breyer.bio.clr.html

Justice Ginsburg
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/ginsburg.bio.clr.html

Justice Kennedy
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/kennedy.bio.clr.html

Justice O'Connor
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/oconnor.bio.clr.html

Justice Rehnquist
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/rehnquist.bio.clr.html

Justice Scalia
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/scalia.bio.clr.html

Justice Souter
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/souter.bio.clr.html

Justice Stevens
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/stevens.bio.clr.html

Justice Thomas
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/thomas.bio.clr.html