And my Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, is here today, and is doing an outstanding job leading that effort.
But I can still afford to pay more than my secretary, who has a higher tax rate than I do.
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In fact, my Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, will be leading another trade mission to India in the next few months.
First of all, my Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood, from Peoria, Illinois, is here. (Applause.) The mayor of Hamtramck, Karen Majewski, is here.
First of all, my Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is here.
An integral part of that course will be health care reform--and she will work closely with my secretary of Health and Human Services on that issue.
When Ken Salazar became my Secretary of the Interior, one of his very first acts was to clean up the worst of the corruption at this agency.
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Then, the minute the bus had turned the corner, she would call my office and satisfy herself that I had been seen off by my secretary at the usual time the night before.
And that's why our administration has initiated something called Race to the Top, where my Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has helped to design a competition among states so that they can foster the kinds of excellence in learning everywhere.
"I understood that the solicitor suggested (in the presence of myself and my secretary) that since the DSCC accepted contributions only from U.S. citizens, a U.S. citizen should contribute on my behalf, " Kramer is quoted as saying in the FEC files.
And my question to you is that I know that my Secretary of State -- and I support you and him -- we should not look at just different schools, but we should look at all of our children in all of our schools and target that, because no one school does not have our problems.
We also have here Secretary Steven Chu, my Energy Secretary.
So I appointed my Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, and my budget director, Jack Lew, to work with representatives of both parties to break through this logjam.
Now, when I chose Gary Locke for my Commerce Secretary, I mentioned his own remarkable story.
And Bob Gates, my Defense Secretary, has been really good about pushing hard on that.
' Called in my foreign secretary and defense secretary and talked it through.
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And I'm asking my Treasury Secretary to continue mobilizing the remaining TARP funds to facilitate lending to small businesses.
As my Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, says, our kids get only one chance at an education, and we need to get it right.
First of all, my outstanding Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is in the house. (Applause.) Superintendant of Columbus City Schools, Dr. Gene T.
My involvement in that was to tell my press secretary that he should give public information to the media when they ask for it.
My wonderful Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, is in the house.
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And so tomorrow my Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, will be announcing some very clear and specific plans for how we are going to start loosening up credit once again.
All right, since I am in Chicago, even though my Press Secretary told me not to do this, I am going to call on a Chicagoan to ask a Chicago question.
I'm going off to Sweden tonight with my health secretary Liam Fox who himself has been to Germany and to France and we're going to go to other countries as well because what we're actually saying is somehow the citizens of these countries recognise they need a better health service and they're prepared to make the changes.
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She's not on the card, but -- (applause.) My outstanding Secretary of Agriculture, who I plucked from Iowa, Tom Vilsack and his wonderful wife Christie Vilsack. (Applause.) We've got the Attorney General of Iowa, one of my co-chairs when I ran in the Iowa caucus and nobody could pronounce my name -- Tom Miller. (Applause.) My other co-chair, Mike Fitzgerald, Treasurer of Iowa. (Applause.) We got the Iowa Secretary of State, Mike Mauro.
Today, my colleagues Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins made an announcement that brings these forces together.
Tim Geithner, my incoming Treasury Secretary, reported that the financial system, shaken by the subprime crisis, had halted almost all lending, which in turn threatened to pull the broader economy in a downward spiral.
That is how I would like see the year ahead -- in my last year as Secretary-General.
Two days later my boss, a secretary in HR, approached me with a confused and slightly irritated expression.
When I announced Kathleen as my choice for HHS Secretary, I said that one of her responsibilities would be to make certain our nation is prepared for a pandemic.
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