Kennedy, no president other than George Herbert Walker Bush named a Cabinet-level nominee before Dec. 1.
In October of 1999 this Cabinet-level agency endorsed ten math programs for grades K-12.
The bill is the product of a three-month Cabinet-level study to determine a national energy strategy.
Co-moderator and Time magazine managing editor Rick Stengel asked McCain if he'd want a cabinet-level position focusing on service.
As a result, FEMA was elevated to a cabinet-level agency in 1993, and James Lee Witt was named director.
He has named the first black judge to the Supreme Court and appointed a cabinet-level advisor on racial inequality.
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed a measure establishing the Department of Energy, the first Cabinet-level department created since 1966.
Energy (alongside climate change) was promoted out of the business ministry to become a cabinet-level post in its own right.
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The Council will be composed of the heads of every Cabinet and Cabinet-level agency, and will meet on a regular basis.
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The highest profile presidential appointments are for Cabinet-level positions, including the opportunity to lead the labor, treasury, defense and state departments.
Is Governor Romney here tomorrow in some kind of Cabinet-level position? (Laughter.) In some kind of audition for that position?
Of the 320 Cabinet-level department positions subject to Senate confirmation, a staggering 60 (19%) are currently being filled in violation of the act.
Previous administrations have elevated people to cabinet-level status, which is mostly a symbolic way of saying they and their subject areas are considered important.
To further enhance state security, Swift also created a Cabinet-level position of Director of Commonwealth Security to work with the federal Office of Homeland Security.
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The White House also released a new report, A Policy Framework for a 21stCentury Grid, produced by the Cabinet-level National Science and technology Council.
He is said to have bristled at having a deputy role in the agency after having served in a Cabinet-level post as the U.S. trade representative.
Mr Mercer repeated Conservative calls for the creation of a new Cabinet-level post for homeland security which he argued would "help coordinate Britain's defence against terrorists".
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Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke led the first cabinet-level trade mission to Indonesia May 25-26, promoting U.S. exports in a broad range of clean energy technologies.
Obama said his team of 15 department heads and Cabinet-level advisers will help his administration implement an economic recovery plan that aims to create 2.5 million jobs.
We have Ambassador Susan Rice, who has indicated that she will be staying on in New York as the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, a Cabinet-level position.
Also on Tuesday, President Obama held a Cabinet meeting, the first since he elevated Karen Mills, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, to a Cabinet-level official.
Below the cabinet-level headlines, transition staffers are being bombarded with calls, e-mails and Facebook requests from everyone they ever shared a beer with, as eager Democrats seek lowlier jobs.
Obama has called for the creation of a new Cabinet-level position: a "chief technology officer" who would make sure the federal government imports the best technology tools from the private sector.
Shortly after taking office in 2000, then-President Vicente Fox met with migrants in his official residence and soon created a Cabinet-level position dedicated to Mexicans who were living in other countries.
When there is an opening for a post in a Cabinet-level department or agency that is subject to Senate confirmation, there are two ways an acting official can be named to fill this post.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge was sworn in Monday as director of the Office of Homeland Security, taking over a new Cabinet-level position charged with coordinating U.S. efforts to defend against and respond to terrorism.
Has he done what some of his predecessors have done, asking senior staff, senior Cabinet-level people to stick with it for an election year to bring continuity to the -- keep continuity for the administration?
People don't begrudge high salaries for important officials (in Singapore they pay cabinet-level ministers more than a million dollars a year, to attract the best people) as long as those salaries are transparent and publicly available.
In 1981, Reagan appointed Casey as Central Intelligence Agency chief, and he became the first CIA director to be granted Cabinet-level status, unfettered access to the president and a huge say in the actual conduct of foreign policy.
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