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	Michael Leavitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Republican, Leavitt was the 14th Governor of the state of Utah.
		Leavitt’s office maintains that the use of the aircraft was necessary and legal since the Senate Appropriations Commitee approved his use of the aircraft, and commercial services could not meet the deadlines required by his engagements.
		Leavitt is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Leavitt (865 words)

	State of Utah Governor Mike O. Leavitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		During the Leavitt years, the air and water are cleaner and critical lands are better protected.
		As a guardian of education, Leavitt has made education the highest funding priority of state government, improved choice and accountability in public schools, reduced class size, and is leading the nation’s first statewide transition to competency-measured learning.
		Leavitt embodies the hopes, dreams, and beliefs of Utah, a youthful, energetic state with great promise.
	www.utah.gov /governorleavitt/biography.html (483 words)

	NetDay Hero Awards
		Michael O. Leavitt, the 14th Governor of Utah, has led the state through an era of change and unparalleled prosperity.
		Leavitt's specific education initiatives include the state's first charter schools, stricter graduation requirements and measures to guarantee reading proficiency, improve the education environment and bring technology to every classroom.
		Leavitt embodies the hopes, dreams and beliefs of Utah, a youthful, energetic state.
	www.netday.org /heroes_leavitt.htm (478 words)

	Health-care system needs overhaul, says HHS secretary Michael Leavitt
		Leavitt went on the Internet and found the same device for $380, but the insurer wasn't buying: it had a contract with a vendor for the higher cost machine and insisted he rent, not buy, the machine first.
		Leavitt spent seven months mired in the bureaucracy, with calls and letters back and forth between his doctor and his insurer, before the insurer finally relented and authorized the purchase of one machine.
		Leavitt said he believes that many of the flaws in our system today, as well as its rising costs, can be traced back to antiquated information technology systems that prevent medical professionals and patients from freely exchanging information.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2005/may25/med-leavitt-052505.html (614 words)

	National Security in the Information Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Michael O. Leavitt was sworn in as the 10th Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency on November 6, 2003.
		Prior to leading the agency, Leavitt served as Utah’s 14th governor and was a national leader on homeland security, welfare reform and environmental management.
		Leavitt’s previous public service he has always pursued three goals: to leave things better than he found them; to plant seeds for the next generation; and to give it all he has.
	www.markletaskforce.org /mleavitt.html (328 words)

	Michael Okerlund Leavitt
		Before entering politics Leavitt worked for The Leavitt Groups, a regional insurance firm, founded by his father, and served on the boards of directors of several large companies.
		Leavitt is Utah's second third term governor (Rampton was the first).
		Leavitt has held regional and national leadership roles and currently sits on the executive committee of the National Governors Association and Republican Governors Association.
	historytogo.utah.gov /people/governors/state/leavitt.html (386 words)

	Michael Leavitt: EPA’s Messenger (by Jim Motavalli)
		Leavitt says we have a consensus building in the U.S. “A new environmental maturity has overtaken this country,” he says, and the argument now is not whether we want to conduct cleanups, but how to do them effectively.
		Leavitt seemed very proud of the administration’s mercury rules, which he said responded to “proper heightened public concern,” and he repeatedly urged the journalists assembled in Pittsburgh to ask about them.
		Leavitt responded that the Bush administration believes that humans have had a discernible effect on the climate, and that the surface of the planet is appreciably warming.
	www.emagazine.com /view/?2099 (1139 words)

	Michael Leavitt - Northern Utah's premiere inspector
		Michael Leavitt strives to be the premiere inspector in Northern Utah and he is one of the founding North American Indagators.
		Michael Leavitt's reputation with clients and their agents is for being extremely thorough and accurate in his evaluations.
		Michael Leavitt is also a member of a very select group of North American property inspectors known as.....
	www.thehomeinspector.com /Clients/MLCintro.html (376 words)

	SUU - Michael O. Leavitt Center for Politics & Public Service: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Originally known as the Center for Politics and Public Service, the Center was renamed after former Governor of Utah and SUU alumni Michael O. Leavitt during the 2003 Commencement exercises at Southern Utah University.
		The central and overriding mission of the Leavitt Center is to help sustain and strengthen the democratic system of government at work in the United States of America from the national to the local level through education and practical experience.
		To help plan and carry out the Leavitt Center’s activities and purposes, a Student Action Committee consisting of SUU students and a Board of Advisors of fifteen members was created.
	www.suu.edu /leavittcenter/history.html (510 words)

	2005 White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA)> Michael O. Leavitt
		Leavitt is widely recognized as a health care innovator and welfare reformer, and his record of achievement in Utah bears this out.
		Michael O. Leavitt was sworn in as the 20th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on January 26, 2005.
		In Leavitt's previous public service he has always pursued three goals: to leave things better than he found them; to plant seeds for the next generation; and to give it his all.
	www.whcoa.gov /about/policy/bios_leavitt.asp (545 words)

	IATP \| AgObservatory
		Leavitt, a former three-term governor of Utah and ex-head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said he considered purchasing the drug to be akin to an automobile seat belt.
		Leavitt said there needs to be a focus on producing vaccines in the U.S. so as to potentially prevent the infection instead of treating those already infected.
		Leavitt said yesterday, is to clearly delineate the roles of federal, state and local officials in the event of a pandemic crisis -- a source of much contention in the response to Hurricane Katrina.
	www.agobservatory.org /headlines.cfm?refID=76966 (1514 words)

	Utah Governor Michael Leavitt to head the EPA: Earthjustice: Environmental Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Now, the nomination of Utah Governor Michael Leavitt to head the EPA raises the possibility that these policies of concealment and deception will be institutionalized in the most important agency we have to protect our water, air quality, and public health.
		Governor Leavitt struck a secret deal with the Bush administration to open six million acres of wild public lands in Utah to mining, clearcutting, and bulldozing.
		In the second case, the Leavitt administration threatened to sue the federal government to make it possible for Utah to bulldoze highways over tens of thousands of miles of cow paths and hiking trails through national parks, wildlife refuges, national monuments and wilderness areas.
	www.earthjustice.org /our_work/buck_in_brief/utah_governor_michael_leavitt_to_head_the_epa.html (723 words)

	10 to Watch: Jim Gilmore & Michael Leavitt
		Leavitt, chairman of the National Governors' Association and a member of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce created by Congress in 1998, sides with the many state and local officials who worry that tax revenues will evaporate as the economy moves online.
		Leavitt, 48, is the son of a former gubernatorial candidate and state senator.
		Leavitt once embarrassed Gilmore by trying to rally opposition to the latter governor's choice for ACEC executive director, who, Leavitt pointed out, was married to a lobbyist for the American Electronics Association.
	www.thestandard.com /article/0,1902,8758,00.html (691 words)

	30/10/2003 -- Michael Leavitt's First Task
		Michael Leavitt, the Utah governor chosen by President Bush to run the Environmental Protection Agency, has finally won Senate confirmation after 56 days.
		Leavitt to try to change these policies, although there are steps he can quickly take to improve his reputation among environmentalists.
		Leavitt's power to do — is to restore the professional credibility of a demoralized agency that for nearly three years has been treated like an extension of Karl Rove's political operation in the White House.
	www.climateark.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=26728 (432 words)

	Michael Leavitt Donates His Collection to SUU - Cedar City Review
		Michael O. Leavitt, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, is giving his collection containing many of his notes, papers, artifacts and memorabilia to Southern Utah University.
		Secretary Leavitt, former governor of Utah and beloved son of Cedar City, is returning to his roots as his professional belongings move back to the place of his childhood beginnings.
		Leavitt graduated from then-Southern Utah State College in 1978 with a degree in business technology, and has said on more than one occasion that he would put the training he received at SUU up against anyone’s from any other institution.
	www.cedarcityreview.com /articles.php?id=2130 (776 words)

	Michael Leavitt - Wonkette
		The unannounced visit to Leavitt’s home in Arlington County was made by members of the Chicago-based National People’s Action, a coalition of neighborhood advocacy groups that is more than 30 years old.
		Betty Gazaway, 72, of Cincinnati, who knocked on Leavitt’s door, said a woman who identified herself as his wife politely told Gazaway that Leavitt was on a plane and could not be reached by phone.
		In defending Secretary Leavitt’s decision not to extend the enrollment deadline for Medicare Part D — just a week away, on May 15 (consider that a public service announcement) — an HHS spokesman said: “Deadlines are good.
	www.wonkette.com /politics/michael-leavitt (563 words)

	NET.org >> Special Reports
		Leavitt said he had not been assured by the White House of another term as head of the EPA, but he also noted that there had been "no discussions" about him leaving.
		Mike Leavitt inherited several controversial proposals, including rules about mercury and "new source review." In two high-profile instances, he furiously backpedaled from commitments before the ink was dry on the news coverage.
		Leavitt aggressively pushed the rule, and repeatedly committed to finalizing it by the end of the year.
	www.net.org /reports/epa/past/leavitt.vtml (1544 words)

	Ten Questions for Michael Leavitt - Center for American Progress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		According to a financial disclosure report filed in 2003, Michael Leavitt revealed his holdings of various investments in pharmaceutical companies – including Johnson and Johnson and Merck and Co., which is currently embroiled in fallout from its drug Vioxx – and medical equipment makers.
		Additionally, Leavitt maintains an investment worth $5 million to $25 million in Leavitt Group Enterprises – the 27th largest insurance broker in the U.S. – where he used to serve as chief operating officer.
		When he was governor of Utah, Leavitt must have certainly been faced with the challenges and harms that can occur if major transitions in health benefits are not handled carefully; unquestionably, the implementation of the Medicare drug benefit program in 2006 is susceptible to such pitfalls.
	www.americanprogress.org /site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=293790 (1879 words)

	HHS - Secretary Mike Leavitt's Priorities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Following his core principles (right), Secretary Mike Leavitt uses a 500-Day Plan as a management tool to guide his energies in fulfilling the President’s vision of a healthier and more hopeful America.
		June 13, 2006 - Secretary Leavitt speaks at the Heritage Foundation in an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of welfare reform.
		March 14, 2006 - Secretary Leavitt, speaking about consumer awareness in health care, said, "People need to know--they have a right to know--the cost of their care and the quality of the care." More...
	www.hhs.gov /secretaryspage.html (940 words)

	Floor Speech Governor Michael Leavitt as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
		President, I rise to address the nomination of Governor Michael Leavitt to be Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and to speak more generally on my concerns regarding the impact of EPA policies on environmental issues in California.
		Governor Leavitt has set an encouragingly progressive precedent in his interactions with the Department of Energy, particularly during his work to remove uranium mine tailings from the Colorado River at Moab, Utah.
		I applaud Governor Leavitt in his past efforts to ensure that the Department of Energy behaves in an environmentally responsible manner, and I urge the Governor to martial all available resources to continue cleaning Superfund sites.
	www.senate.gov /~feinstein/03Speeches/s-leavitt-epa-102803.htm (2871 words)

	HHS - Mike Leavitt, Secretary
		He is intensively focused on making health care more transparent in quality and price, and reducing the time and expense of bringing safe and effective drugs to market.
		Prior to his current service, Leavitt served as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and three-term Governor of Utah.
		Prior to his public service, he served as president and chief executive officer of a regional insurance firm, establishing it as one of the top insurance brokers in America.
	www.hhs.gov /about/bios/dhhssec.html (306 words)

	www.GovExec.com - Senate confirms Leavitt as EPA chief (10/28/03)
		While Clinton voted to confirm Leavitt, Lieberman, Kerry and Edwards were all absent from the vote.
		Leavitt also takes over a deeply troubled enforcement program that has become the focus of increased Democratic scrutiny in the House and Senate.
		Although Leavitt was largely untouched personally during the political attacks that marred his confirmation, he will now become the front and center representative of the administration's environmental policies.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/1003/102803cdpm2.htm (349 words)

	Bird flu expected to hit U.S. flocks soon - Bird Flu - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Leavitt said that infection of birds alone in the United States with the H5N1 virus would not create a public health emergency.
		Leavitt told the committee that by the end of this year, the United States will have about 20 million doses of anti-viral drugs, mostly Tamiflu, stockpiled.
		Leavitt also was skeptical that the federal government could provide all localities with the full arsenal of basic medical equipment, such as ventilators, masks, gauze and gloves, needed during a pandemic.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11625567 (976 words)

	NPR : Michael O. Leavitt, Administrator of the EPA
		Michael O. Leavitt took over as EPA administrator in November 2003, after serving as governor of Utah.
		Leavitt spoke to the Press Club about clean air policy in a time of economic globalism.
		"Cleaning the air is a generational relay," Leavitt said in his speech.
	www.npr.org /programs/npc/2004/040414.mleavitt.html (184 words)

	Secretary of Health and Human Services, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs, and U.S. Agency for ...
		Let me now invite Secretary Leavitt to begin by discussing the trip and maybe some of the programmatic areas that HHS is supporting.
		SECRETARY LEAVITT: There is a global dearth of vaccine manufacturing capacity and it is represented in that region of the world as it is in all others.
		I can't tell from one briefing operationally whether it is a model for the rest of the world, but it does appear that they've got a system in place and they're attempting to test it to see whether it works.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2005/55421.htm (4631 words)

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