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	Norman Y. Mineta, Former Secretary of Transportation, 2001-2006
		Norman Y. Mineta is the longest serving Secretary in the history of the U.S. Department of Transportation, becoming the 14th Secretary of Transportation on January 25, 2001.
		Secretary Mineta and his family were among the 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry forced from their homes and into internment camps during World War II.
		Secretary Mineta is married to Danealia (Deni) Mineta.
	www.whitehouse.gov /government/mineta-bio.html (901 words)

	Mary E. Peters - Secretary of Transportation
		Secretary Peters brings a unique perspective to her role as the nation's transportation chief, having spent her career working on transportation issues in the private and public sectors, including leading both federal and state transportation agencies.
		As Secretary of Transportation, she intends to use these same skills to tackle today's most pressing challenges including fighting congestion across all modes of transportation, improving safety and addressing strains on traditional sources of transportation funding.
		She is responsible for maintaining a safe, reliable and efficient transportation system, while leading an agency with almost 60,000 employees and a $61.6 billion budget that oversees air, maritime and surface transportation missions.
	www.whitehouse.gov /government/mpeters-bio.html (492 words)

	Bill Summary - Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002
		Requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish security incident response plans for vessels and facilities that may be involved in a transportation security incident and to make such plans available to the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for inclusion in the Director's response plan for U.S. ports and waterways.
		Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe conditions of entry for or to deny entry into the United States to vessels arriving from foreign ports with ineffective antiterrorism measures.
		Requires the Secretary of Transportation to notify the Secretary of State whenever a foreign port is found not to be maintaining effective antiterrorism measures.
	www.admiraltylawguide.com /documents/sum107-295.html (3567 words)

	Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta
		"Transportation is key to generating and enabling economic growth, determining the patterns of that growth, and determining the competitiveness of our businesses in the world economy," said Secretary Mineta.
		As Secretary of Transportation, Mineta oversees an agency with 100,000 employees and a $58.7 billion budget.
		He is the first Secretary of Transportation to have previously served in a cabinet position.
	www.usemb.se /cabbio/mineta-bio.html (700 words)

	Remarks by the President and Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters at Ceremonial Swearing-In - Christian Newswire
		The job of Secretary of Transportation is one of the most important in our federal government.
		As Secretary of Transportation, Mary will work closely with federal, state and local leaders to ensure that America has a state-of-the-art transportation system, so that we can meet the needs of our growing economy.
		The employees here at the Department are the absolute soul of America's transportation network, and we will need every bit of your talent as we work with our partners in the public and private sectors to find the right way to tackle today's most pressing transportation challenges.
	www.christiannewswire.com /news/679731241.html (1853 words)

	Governor: Allen D. Biehler — Secretary of Transportation
		While a vice president at the international transportation consulting firm of DMJM+Harris, Secretary Biehler was project manager for the North Shore Light Rail Transit connector and for the Strategic Visioning Study--both in Pittsburgh.
		Secretary Biehler has also served on committees of the Transportation Research Board, the American Public Transportation Association and the University of Pittsburgh.
		A native of Rochester, New York, Secretary Biehler is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in civil engineering and holds a master's equivalent certificate in transportation from Yale University.
	www.governor.state.pa.us /governor/cwp/view.asp?A=1112&Q=437818 (266 words)

	DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Our goal is to fashion a nationwide transportation worker identification solution that verifies the identity of transportation workers, validates their background information, assists transportation facilities in managing their security risks, and accounts for personnel access to transportation facilities and activities of authorized personnel.
		Authority to implement a transportation worker credentialing system was recently enhanced with the passage of Public Law 107-71 (The Aviation and Transportation Security Act).
		The Department of Transportation is presently engaged with our transportation partners on these conceptual issues, since their support will be critical.
	www.house.gov /transportation/cgmt/02-13-02/underwood.html (1233 words)

	Open letter to media and Secretary of Transportation Doug MacDonald
		Washington's Secretary of Transportation (DOT), Doug MacDonald, recently drafted a letter to the Evergreen Freedom Foundation criticizing our recommendations for solving traffic congestion.
		Secretary MacDonald criticized EFF's recommendation that prevailing wage laws be eliminated, citing an audit conducted in 1999 on behalf of the Joint Legislative Audit Review Committee, which concluded that prevailing wage laws add less than half of one percent to the price of a project.
		Secretary MacDonald highlights findings from two of Michigan's performance audits to make the case that privatizing or outsourcing public projects is a bad idea.
	www.effwa.org /press_releases/2003_01_16.php (1150 words)

	Kentucky.gov: - Governor Ernie Fletcher names Transportation Cabinet Secretary
		The transportation infrastructure of the Commonwealth includes 27,438 miles of roads, 160 licensed airports, 23 public transportation systems, and registers of 2.7 million licensed drivers and 3.4 million vehicles annually.
		Secretary Nighbert is the former mayor of the city of Williamsburg in Whitley County.
		Secretary Nighbert is married and has three children.
	kentucky.gov /Newsroom/governor/051123transportationsecretary.htm (370 words)

	Transportation secretary resigning - Politics - MSNBC.com
		Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta announced his resignation, effective July 7, to to pursue other challenges.
		Mineta, who oversaw the huge transportation security buildup after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, had been plagued at times by back problems and spent months working from home and the hospital.
		The Transportation Department changed dramatically during his tenure, swelling to 160,000 people when the Transportation Security Administration was created in 2002, then shrinking to fewer than 60,000 when the TSA and the Coast Guard left to become part of the newly created Homeland Security Department.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/13501970 (618 words)

	Secretary of Transportation
		Later appointed in June 2006 to the position of Cabinet Secretary for Department of Transportation, he currently serves in a dual capacity as Secretary/Commissioner of Highways.
		Secretary Mattox is a Nitro native and began his career at the Division of Highways as a co-op student in 1979 and worked with the Division off Highways until the fall of 1987.
		Secretary Mattox is a registered professional engineer in West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and Alabama and is also a registered professional land surveyor in West Virginia.
	www.wvdot.com /11_WVDOT/11d_secretary.htm (220 words)

	Mary Peters New Transportation Secretary - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Peters was formerly the transportation director in her home state of Arizona.
		While in her post as the head of the Arizona Department of Transportation, she was considered an effective leader who brought together the local governments and other transportation members in the spirit of her advocacy of public and private partnerships.
		She is expected to become a strong advocate for reorganizing the transportation infrastructure.
	www.forbes.com /business/2006/09/05/transport-secretary-peters-cx_rm_0905peters.html (265 words)

	ARI News - Mineta resigns as Secretary of Transportation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		ARI News - Mineta resigns as Secretary of Transportation
		Mineta was the Secretary of Transportation under President George W. Bush for over five years.
		As Secretary of Transportation, Mineta oversees an agency with almost 60,000 employees and a $61.6 billion budget.
	www.aggregateresearch.com /article.asp?id=8857 (1044 words)

	Secretary of Transportation to Deliver Keynote Address at the Library
		A native of California, Secretary Mineta and his family were among the 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry forced from their homes and into internment camps during World War II.
		Secretary Mineta served in Congress as a democratic representative from the state of California from 1975 to 1995.
		While in Congress, Secretary Mineta was the driving force behind passage of H.R. 442, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which officially apologized for and redressed the injustices endured by Japanese Americans during the war.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2001/01-054.html (489 words)

	Secretary of Transportation Maria Cino
		Maria Cino was nominated by President George W. Bush as the Deputy Secretary of Transportation on April 6, 2005, and confirmed by the United States Senate a month later.
		Cino is helping the President and Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta ensure that the United States and its citizens have a safe, efficient, and reliable transportation system that meets vital national interests and enhances the quality of life for Americans today and into the future.
		Deputy Secretary Cino serves as the Department’s chief operating officer, responsible for the day-to-day management of DOT’s $61.1 billion budget, 10 modal administrations, and approximately 60,000 employees.
	www.usemb.se /cabbio/cino-bio.html (359 words)

	secretary - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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		Mineta, Norman, born in 1931, American politician, secretary of commerce (2000-2001) under President Bill Clinton, and secretary of transportation...
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	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=secretary (182 words)

	President Nominates Mary Peters as Transportation Secretary
		I'm pleased to announce that I intend to nominate Mary Peters to be the next Secretary of Transportation.
		He was the Secretary of Transportation on September the 11th, 2001.
		As the President has so clearly recognized, our nation's transportation systems are essential to America's continued economic vitality and our ability as a nation to compete in a global economy, and, most importantly, to the quality of life of all Americans.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2006/09/20060905-5.html (886 words)

	Transportation Secretary Praises Lackland Airmen
		LACKLAND Air Force BASE, Texas - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta praised Airmen here Jan. 25 for their vital role in transportation and care of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita evacuees.
		Secretary Mineta also toured one of the 433rd Airlift Wing’s C-5A Galaxy cargo aircraft.
		The secretary is touring the Gulf Coast region to recognize people who assisted with hurricane recovery efforts.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,86412,00.html (270 words)

	Bush picks former highway administrator as next U.S. transportation secretary - Americas - International Herald Tribune
		Peters said that if confirmed, she would try to improve a transportation infrastructure that is showing signs of age.
		Since November, Peters has been national director for transportation policy and consulting in the Phoenix office of Omaha-based architectural, engineering and consulting firm HDR Inc., according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official announcement had not been made.
		Instead, Mineta became the longest-serving transportation secretary since the department was formed in 1967.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/09/05/america/NA_GEN_US_Transportation_Secretary.php (575 words)

	Norman Mineta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was appointed United States Secretary of Transportation by President George W. Bush in 2001, a post he was originally offered eight years previously by Bill Clinton.
		He is the only Democrat to have served in Bush's cabinet and also the first Secretary of Transportation to have previously served in a cabinet position.
		White House Press Secretary Tony Snow announced on June 23, 2006, that Mineta would resign effective July 7, 2006, because "he wanted to", with a spokesman for Mineta saying he was "moving on to pursue other challenges." He left office as the longest-serving Secretary of Transportation in history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Mineta (1280 words)

	About John Cogliano
		Prior to being appointed as Secretary, Cogliano served as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Highway Department.
		Secretary Cogliano also worked for five years at the Massachusetts Division of Capital Planning and Operations and at his family-owned business on the South Shore of Massachusetts.
		Secretary Cogliano graduated from Boston College with a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Political Science and later studied Administration and Management at Harvard University.
	www.mhd.state.ma.us /default.asp?pgid=../eot/content/bio01&sid=bio (217 words)

	CNN.com - Transportation Secretary Mineta resigns - Jun 23, 2006
		Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta is resigning, effective July 7, the White House said Friday.
		His biography on the Transportation Department's Web site said he is "the longest serving secretary in the history of the U.S. Department of Transportation, becoming the 14th Secretary of Transportation on January 25, 2001."
		"Secretary Mineta and his family were among the 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry forced from their homes and into internment camps during World War II," the biography said.
	cnn.com /rssclick/2006/POLITICS/06/23/mineta.resigns/index.html?... (260 words)

	Norman Y. Mineta - SourceWatch
		Norman Y. Mineta became the 14th Secretary of Transportation on January 25, 2001.
		Mineta was appointed January 2, 2001, by President George W. Bush to be Secretary of Transportation, Department of Transportation.
		On May 16, 2006, President George W. Bush announced his intention to appoint Mineta to be a Member of the AMTRAK Reform Board, for a five-year term beginning June 28, 2006.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Norman_Y._Mineta (614 words)

	Bush nominates Arizonan for Transportation secretary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday nominated former Arizona Department of Transportation Director Mary Peters to serve as the nation's secretary of Transportation, a Cabinet-level post.
		She said she looks forward to challenges ahead, including addressing a transportation infrastructure that "is showing signs of aging." Neither Peters nor Bush took questions afterward.
		Arizonan Mary Peters was nominated by President Bush to serve as secretary of Transportation.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/0906peters-trans.html (849 words)

	ABC News: Mineta to Quit As Transportation Secretary
		Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta is shown at a research center for auto supplier TRW Automotive Holdings Corp., in Livonia, Mich., in this Feb. 22, 2006 file photo.
		Mineta, 74, was plagued with back problems during his tenure as transportation secretary and spent months working from home and the hospital.
		Snow credited Mineta with establishing the Transportation Security Agency, cutting regulations and red tape to liberalize the commercial aviation market, helping shape the legislation that finances the nation's highways, and injecting "sound economic principles" into the nation's passenger rail system.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/wireStory?id=2111284&page=1 (403 words)

	Secretary's Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Ehrlich Administration is dedicated to ensuring that Maryland’s transportation network meets the needs of our citizens and supports economic development throughout the State.
		You may access the individual websites of our transportation agencies by clicking on the agency names that are on the MDOT home page.
		Whether you are a citizen of Maryland who depends on the State’s transportation system, or a person in search of business or leisure opportunities, we hope your time on the MDOT website is beneficial.
	www.mdot.state.md.us /Secretarys_Welcome/index.html (332 words)

	53nd Virginia Transportation Conference, 2003, VMI
		Richmond, VA - Transportation Secretary Whitt Clement cancelled the annual transportation conference at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, which was to be held Oct. 15-17.
		The conference is held at VMI every year during October to bring together state transportation professionals and state, local and federal transportation officials from rail, highway, transit, port, airport and economic development agencies.
		Secretary of Transportation Whittington Clement (Center) reviews the VMI Corp of Cadets at last year's conference.
	transportation.vmi.edu (294 words)

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