As a potentially pivotal senator, he may be more influential than a Cabinet secretary anyways.
Shouldn't the Speaker of the House and Senate majority leader have gone to the funeral of a Cabinet secretary?
We want them to imagine the possibility that they could one day be a Cabinet Secretary, or an officer in the military who mentors a young girl once a week.
As a cabinet secretary (and as a potential, if dark horse, presidential nominee) Madame Secretary should refrain from slurring the Drudge Report, as recently she did, a slur Drudge, confidently, featured.
FORBES: The Power Of Drudge: A Little Civics Lesson For Janet Napolitano And Barack Obama
Mr Mathews has pressed these themes since his days as a cabinet secretary in the Ford administration, but it is only in the past five years or so that they have really caught on.
ECONOMIST: American democracy: Building the perfect citizen | The
The fact of the matter is you just had a Cabinet Secretary with enormous responsibility for an agency that affects everybody who travels in our skies tell you exactly that -- that that's what he is doing on the instructions of the President.
Nothing spoken of in the hearing suggested a cover-up by a Cabinet secretary, who instantly took personal responsibility for the attacks and swiftly appointed an independent commission led by two of the most distinguished, nonpartisan career civil servants in recent American history to investigate them.
So think about what that means to a young Latina girl when she sees a Cabinet secretary that looks like her. (Applause.) Think about what it means to a young girl in Iowa when she sees a presidential candidate who looks like her.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony | The White House
Lord (Robin) Butler, a former cabinet secretary and master of an Oxford college, may be a pillar of the establishment, but he is no New Labour patsy.
After all, just eight months ago, Mr Blair received a withering dressing-down over his style of government from Lord Butler, a former cabinet secretary, who reported on the uses and misuses of intelligence before the war with Iraq.
Likened earlier this year by Lord Turnbull, a former cabinet secretary (Britain's top civil servant), to Macavity the cat, who was never to be found at the scene of the crime, the prime minister will find it hard now to evade his own responsibility for what has gone wrong on Mr Darling's brief watch.
He was more than a four-time Cabinet secretary, more than a Knight of the English Empire knighted by Queen Elizabeth, more, too, than Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense.
Labour MP Nick Raynsford said that when Mr Coulson was still working at Downing Street, the cabinet secretary had been alerted to evidence of illegal phone hacking, covert surveillance and hostile media briefing against a senior government official - a claim the cabinet secretary denied.
Last week MPs on the Public Administration Select Committee tore a strip off Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood for his somewhat limited investigation into the Andrew Mitchell plebgate allegations.
As well as writing to those named in the e-mails, Mr Brown sent a letter to Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, saying he was ready to take "whatever action is required" to prevent a repeat of the incident.
At first, the Secretary of War, a Cabinet member who, from the start, was a civilian, was called the Secretary at War, a holdover from the Revolution but also a prepositional manifestation of an ideological commitment: the department was chiefly to be called upon only if the nation was at war.
Mrs Arroyo has begun appointing a new cabinet, starting with a decent new secretary of finance.
Mr Yudhoyono's aides say Marsillam Simandjuntak, a doctor who was cabinet secretary during the Abdurrahman Wahid presidency, is their preferred choice.
Pensioners in Wales lived through the 1960s campaign to create Wales's own political seat in the UK Cabinet, a Welsh Secretary, then in the 1970s they saw historic counties such as Cardiganshire disappear in a wide-ranging local government review.
But it still leaves Scotland with a Scottish secretary in the cabinet, the need for which looks increasingly hard to justify.
Speaking at a press conference, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano explained that the action was not being taken because of any new increase in radiation coming from FDI.
FORBES: Japan Nuclear Update: Evacuation Zone Expands, New Photos of Tsunami Hitting Plant
We need a full investigation by the Cabinet Secretary.
BBC: Gove faces further MPs' questions over special advisers
Still, in late spring and early summer, she was whispered as a possible vice presidential candidate -- and more recently as a contender for secretary of education in an Obama Cabinet -- but elected office would mark a major shift for Kennedy.
He then became the overseas development minister before gaining a cabinet seat in 1989 as environment secretary.
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan soon (in 1961) gave her a junior office at Pensions, and when the Conservatives returned to power in 1970, she was fortunate to be allotted to the one seat in the cabinet reserved for a woman, secretary of state for education.
When a harassed Yasuo Fukuda, the chief cabinet secretary, then reportedly let slip that Japan might rescind its non-nuclear policy, it caused yet another uproar.
Kerry came out early and hard for Obama in the Democratic primaries and expected, one imagined, the reward of a high-level cabinet post, probably secretary of state.
Yesterday, April 3, Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide made a high profile visit during which he trumpeted a commitment from the U.S. given only last month to return to Japan five bases located south of Kadena by about 2020.
FORBES: As Japan Commemorates A Postwar Return To Sovereignty Okinawans Lament A Day Of Shame
Although Mr Livingstone has offered Mr Dobson a job in his cabinet, the former health secretary said he could "see no circumstances" in which he would work for the mayor.
This is what made it so vital to Mr Blair to bring Alan Milburn, a former health secretary, back into the cabinet to snatch oversight of the manifesto and the election campaign from Mr Brown.
应用推荐