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The '''Cabinet of the United States''' is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the [[Executive (government)|executive branch]] of the [[federal government of the United States]], who are generally the heads of the [[United States federal executive departments|federal executive departments]]. The existence of the Cabinet dates back to the first [[President of the United States]], [[George Washington]], who appointed a Cabinet of four persons: [[U.S. Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[Thomas Jefferson]]; [[U.S. Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] [[Alexander Hamilton]]; [[U.S. Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] [[Henry Knox]]; and [[U.S. Attorney General|Attorney General]] [[Edmund Randolph]] to advise him and to assist him in carrying out his duties.

All Cabinet members are nominated by the President and then presented to the [[U.S. Senate|Senate]] for [[advice and consent|confirmation or rejection]] by a [[majority|simple majority]]. If they are approved, they are [[oath of office|sworn in]] and then begin their duties. Aside from the Attorney General, and the [[United States Postmaster General|Postmaster General]] when it was a Cabinet office, they all receive the title of Secretary. Members of the Cabinet serve at the pleasure of the President, which means that the President may dismiss them or reappoint them (to other posts) at will.

==In federal law and the Constitution==
[[File:Emancipation proclamation.jpg|thumb|350px|right|[[Abraham Lincoln]] met with his Cabinet for the first reading of the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] draft, (July 26, 1862).]]
[[File:President Nixon with his first term cabinet.jpg|thumb|350px|right|The  [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] Cabinet, 1969]]
[[File:Photograph of President Gerald R. Ford Presiding Over an Afternoon Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room - NARA - 186811.tif|thumb|350px|President Gerald R. Ford meeting with his cabinet (June 25, 1976)]]
[[File:Cabinet Meeting with Jimmy Carter - NARA - 177955.tif|thumb|350px|President Jimmy Carter's cabinet meeting (February 13, 1978)]]
[[File:Photograph of President Reagan leading a Cabinet Meeting - NARA - 198576.jpg|thumb|350px|President Reagan and his cabinet (September 11, 1986)]]
[[File:President Bush conducts a full Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room - NARA - 186399.tif|thumb|350px|right|President George H. W. Bush and his cabinet in the Cabinet Room (September 5, 1989).]]
[[File:Clinton Administration.jpg|350px|thumb|The [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Cabinet, in 1993.]]
[[File:George W. Bush Cabinet 2008.jpg|thumb|350px|right|The [[George W. Bush|Bush]] Cabinet (February 2008).]]
[[File:President Barack Obama with full cabinet 09-10-09.jpg|thumb|350px|right|The first [[Barack Obama|Obama]] Cabinet (September 2009).]]
There is no explicit definition of the term "[[Cabinet (government)|Cabinet]]" in either the [[United States Constitution]], the [[United States Code]], or the [[Code of Federal Regulations]]. There are occasional references to "Cabinet-level officers" or "secretaries", which when viewed in their context do refer to the "Heads of the Executive Departments" as listed in {{usc|5|101}}.

"The principal Officer in each of the executive Departments" is mentioned in Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and "Heads of Departments" in Clause 2. This is the Article in the Constitution about the Executive Branch of the government. Also, "the principal officers of the executive departments" are mentioned in Section 4 of the [[25th Amendment]], which is an important section concerning the removal of the President when he or she is unable to carry out his duties because of some disability. The "principal officers" are not necessarily synonymous with cabinet members.

In {{usc|3|302}} with regard to delegation of authority by the President, it is provided that "nothing herein shall be deemed to require express authorization in any case in which such an official would be presumed in law to have acted by authority or direction of the President." This pertains directly to the heads of the executive departments as each of their offices is created and specified by statutory law (hence the presumption) and thus gives them the authority to act for the President within their areas of responsibility without any specific delegation.

Under {{usc|5|3110}}, federal officials are prohibited from appointing their immediate family members to certain governmental positions, including those in the Cabinet. Passed in 1967, this law was a congressional response in delayed dismay about [[John F. Kennedy]]'s appointment of his brother [[Robert F. Kennedy]] to the office of the [[U.S. Attorney General|Attorney General]].

==Salary==

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Cabinet officials receive an amount of pay determined by [[Title 5 of the United States Code]]. According to {{UnitedStatesCode|5|5312}}, Cabinet level positions qualify for Level I pay, which was set at an annual salary of $199,700 in 2011. Some Cabinet-level officials, including the [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] and the [[White House Chief of Staff]], have their salaries determined differently.

==Meetings==
For the first 175 years of its existence, the Cabinet as a body would meet frequently, sometimes several times a week. 
These were so important that they continued to be held in the absence of President [[Woodrow Wilson]] while he was away in France during the [[Versailles conference]], leading to the inclusion of the Vice President for the first time. During the administrations of [[Lyndon Johnson]] and [[Richard Nixon]], the frequency of meeting declined, and by the end of the latter's administration, months would pass between sessions.

An expanded White House staff has taken over many of the functions of the Cabinet as a body.

==Current Cabinet and Cabinet-level officials==
{{See also|Confirmations of Barack Obama's Cabinet}}
The individuals listed below were nominated by President [[Barack Obama]] to form his Cabinet and were confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on the date noted. An elected Vice President does not require Senate confirmation, nor does the [[White House Chief of Staff]], which is an appointed staff position of the [[Executive Office of the President of the United States|Executive Office of the President]].

===Cabinet===
The Cabinet officers are listed in rank order according to the [[United States presidential line of succession]]:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Office<br/>{{small|(statutory basis)}}
! Incumbent
! Term began

|-
| [[File:Department of state.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|22|2651a}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:John Kerry official Secretary of State portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[John Kerry]]}}
| February 1, 2013

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfTheTreasury-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|31|301}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Jacob Lew official portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Jack Lew]]}}
| February 28, 2013

|-
| [[File:United States Department of Defense Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|10|113}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Chuck Hagel Defense portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Chuck Hagel]]}}
| February 27, 2013

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfJustice-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|28|503}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Eric Holder official portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Eric Holder]]}}
| February 2, 2009

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfTheInterior-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|43|1451}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Sally Jewell official portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Sally Jewell]]}}
| April 12, 2013

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfAgriculture-Seal2.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of Agriculture|Secretary of Agriculture]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|7|2202}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Tom Vilsack, official USDA photo portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Tom Vilsack]]}}
| January 20, 2009

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfCommerce-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of Commerce|Secretary of Commerce]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|15|1501}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Penny Pritzker official portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Penny Pritzker]]}}
| June 26, 2013

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfLabor-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of Labor|Secretary of Labor]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|29|551}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:PerezOfficial.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Thomas Perez]]}}
| July 23, 2013

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfHHS-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services|Secretary of Health and Human Services]]<br/>{{small|(Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953, {{USStat|67|631}} and {{UnitedStatesCode|42|3501}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Sylvia Mathews Burwell official portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Sylvia Mathews Burwell]]}}
| June 9, 2014

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfHUD-Seal.svg|70px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development|Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|42|3532}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Julián Castro's Official HUD Portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Julian Castro]]}}
| July 28, 2014

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfTransportation-Seal.svg|73px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of Transportation|Secretary of Transportation]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|49|102}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Anthony Foxx official portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Anthony Foxx]]}}
| July 2, 2013

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfEnergy-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|42|7131}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Moniz official portrait sitting.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Ernest Moniz]]}}
| May 21, 2013

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfEducation-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of Education|Secretary of Education]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|20|3411}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:DuncanArne.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Arne Duncan]]}}
| January 20, 2009

|-
| [[File:US-DeptOfVeteransAffairs-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs|Secretary of Veterans Affairs]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|38|303}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Robert_A._McDonald_Official_Portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Robert A. McDonald|Robert McDonald]]}}
| July 30, 2014

|-
| [[File:US Department of Homeland Security Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Secretary of Homeland Security|Secretary of Homeland Security]]<br/>{{small|({{UnitedStatesCode|6|112}})}}
| align="center" | [[File:Jeh Johnson official DHS portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Jeh Johnson]]}}
| December 23, 2013

|}

=== Cabinet-level officers ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Office
! Incumbent
! Term began

|-
| [[File:US Vice President Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]
| align=center | [[File:Official portrait of Vice President Joe Biden.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Joe Biden]]}}
| January 20, 2009

|-
| [[File:US-WhiteHouse-Logo.svg|75px]]<br/>[[White House Chief of Staff]]
| align=center | [[File:Denis McDonough 2011.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Denis McDonough]]}}
| January 25, 2013

|-
| [[File:US-OfficeOfManagementAndBudget-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[Office of Management and Budget|Director of the Office of Management and Budget]]
| align=center | [[File:Shaun Donovan.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Shaun Donovan]]}}
| July 28, 2014

|-
| [[File:Environmental Protection Agency logo.svg|75px]]<br/>[[Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency]]
| align=center | [[File:Gina McCarthy official portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Gina McCarthy]]}}
| July 18, 2013

|-
| [[File:US-TradeRepresentative-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[Office of the United States Trade Representative|Trade Representative]]
| align=center | [[File:Michael Froman official portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Michael Froman]]}}
| June 21, 2013

|-
| [[File:Department of state.svg|75px]]<br/>[[United States Ambassador to the United Nations|Ambassador to the United Nations]]
| align=center | [[File:Samantha Power.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Samantha Power]]}}
| August 2, 2013

|-
| [[File:Council of Economic Advisers.png|75px]]<br/>[[Council of Economic Advisers|Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers]]
| align=center | [[File:Jason Furman official portrait.jpg|100px]]<br>{{center|[[Jason Furman]]}}
| August 2, 2013

|-
| [[File:US-SmallBusinessAdmin-Seal.svg|75px]]<br/>[[Administrator of the Small Business Administration]]
| align=center | [[File:Maria Contreras Sweet portrait.jpg|100px]]{{center|[[Maria Contreras-Sweet]]}}
| April 7, 2014
|}

==Former Cabinet departments==
* [[United States Department of War|Department of War]] (1789–1949), headed by the [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]]: subsumed into new [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] as the [[Department of the Army]].
* [[United States Department of the Navy|Department of the Navy]] (1798–1949), headed by the [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]]: subsumed into new [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]].
* [[United States Post Office Department|Post Office Department]] (1829–1971), headed by the [[United States Postmaster General|Postmaster General]]: reorganized as the [[United States Postal Service]], an independent executive agency.
* [[United States Department of the Air Force|Department of the Air Force]] (1947–1949), headed by the [[United States Secretary of the Air Force|Secretary of the Air Force]]: subsumed into new [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]].

==Renamed Cabinet positions==
* [[United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs|Secretary of Foreign Affairs]]: created in July 1781 and renamed Secretary of State in September 1789.<ref>The office of Secretary of Foreign Affairs existed under the [[Articles of Confederation]] from October 20, 1781 to March 3, 1789, the day before the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]] came into force.</ref>
* [[United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor|Secretary of Commerce and Labor]]: created in 1903 and renamed [[United States Secretary of Commerce|Secretary of Commerce]] in 1913 when its labor functions were transferred to the new [[United States Secretary of Labor|Secretary of Labor]].
* National Military Establishment: created by the [[National Security Act of 1947]] and recreated as the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] in 1949.
* Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: created in 1953 and renamed [[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services|Secretary of Health and Human Services]] in 1979 when its education functions were transferred to the new [[United States Secretary of Education|Secretary of Education]].

==Executive officials no longer of Cabinet rank==
* Director of the [[Federal Security Agency]] (1939–1952): Abolished, most duties transferred to the [[Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]]
* Director of the [[Federal Emergency Management Agency]] (1996–2001): created as an independent agency in 1979, raised to Cabinet rank in 1996,<ref name=rank>{{cite press release
| title = President Clinton Raises FEMA Director to Cabinet Status
| publisher = Federal Emergency Management Agency
| date = February 26, 1996
| url = https://web.archive.org/web/19970116185236/www.fema.gov/home/NWZ96/cabinet.htm
| accessdate =May 22, 2009
| quote =}}</ref> and dropped from Cabinet rank in 2001.<ref name=cqfema>{{Cite web
|author = Fowler, Daniel
| title = Emergency Managers Make It Official: They Want FEMA Out of DHS
| publisher = ''CQ Politics''
| date = November 19, 2008
| url = http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=hsnews-000002988269&cpage=1
| format =
| accessdate =March 3, 2010
| quote = During the Clinton administration, FEMA Administrator James Lee Witt met with the Cabinet. His successor in the Bush administration, Joe M. Allbaugh, did not.}} (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/5ny13zsIv)</ref>
* [[Director of Central Intelligence]] (1995–2001)<ref>{{Cite book| last = Tenet | first = George | authorlink = George Tenet | title = At the Center of the Storm | publisher = HarperCollins | location = London | year = 2007 | isbn = 0-06-114778-8 | page = 136 | quote= Under President Clinton, I was a cabinet member—a legacy of John Deutch's requirement when he took the job as DCI—but my contacts with the president, while always interesting, were sporadic. I could see him as often as I wanted but was not on a regular schedule. Under President Bush, the DCI lost its Cabinet-level status.}}</ref><ref name=com>{{Cite web
| author = Schoenfeld, Gabriel
| title = The CIA Follies (Cont'd.)
| publisher = ''Commentary''
| date = July–August 2007
| url = https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-cia-follies--cont-d--10897?page=all
| format =
| accessdate =May 22, 2009
| quote = Though he was to lose the cabinet rank he had enjoyed under Clinton, he came to enjoy “extraordinary access” to the new President, who made it plain that he wanted to be briefed every day.}}</ref><ref name=nyt>{{Cite news
| author = Sciolino, Elaine
| title = C.I.A. Chief Charts His Own Course
| publisher = ''New York Times''
| date = September 29, 1996
| url = http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/us/cia-chief-charts-his-own-course.html?scp=5&sq=John%20M.%20Deutch%20cabinet%20rank&st=nyt&pagewanted=all
| accessdate =May 22, 2009
| quote = It is no secret that Mr. Deutch initially turned down the intelligence position, and was rewarded for taking it by getting cabinet rank.}}</ref>
* Director of the [[Office of National Drug Control Policy]] (1993–2009)<ref name=czar>{{Cite web
|author = Clinton, Bill
| title = Remarks by the President and Lee Brown, Director of Office of National Drug Control Policy
| publisher = White House
| date = July 1, 1993
| url = http://clinton6.nara.gov/1993/07/1993-07-01-presidents-remarks-at-swearing-in-of-lee-brown.html
| accessdate =May 22, 2009
| quote = We are here today to install a uniquely qualified person to lead our nation's effort in the fight against illegal drugs and what they do to our children, to our streets, and to our communities. And to do it for the first time from a position sitting in the President's Cabinet.}}</ref><ref name=csm>{{Cite web
| author = Cook, Dave
| title = New drug czar gets lower rank, promise of higher visibility
| publisher = ''Christian Science Monitor''
| date = March 11, 2009
| url = http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/03/11/new-drug-czar-gets-lower-rank-promise-of-higher-visibility/
| accessdate =March 16, 2009
| quote = For one thing, in the Obama administration the Drug Czar will not have Cabinet status, as the job did during George W. Bush’s administration.}}</ref>

==Proposed Cabinet departments==
* U.S. Department of Commerce and Industry (proposed by business interests in the 1880s)
* U.S. Department of Agriculture and Labor (proposed by members of U.S. Congress)
* U.S. [[Department of Peace]] (proposed by Congressman [[Dennis Kucinich]], Senator [[Matthew Neely]], and other members of the U.S. Congress)<ref name=rs>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeacealliance.org/content/view/54/130/|title=History of Legislation to Create a Dept. of Peace}}</ref>
* U.S. Department of Public Welfare (proposed by President [[Warren Harding]])
* U.S. Department of Natural Resources (proposed by former President [[Herbert Hoover]], the [[Eisenhower administration]], President [[Richard Nixon]] and the GOP national platform in 1976)
* U.S. Department of Social Welfare (proposed by President [[Franklin Roosevelt]])
* U.S. Department of Public Works (proposed by President [[Franklin Roosevelt]])
* U.S. Department of Conservation (proposed by Interior Secretary [[Harold L. Ickes]])
* U.S. Department of Urban Affairs (proposed by President [[John F. Kennedy]])
* U.S. Department of Business and Labor (proposed by President [[Lyndon Johnson]])
* U.S. Department of Community Development (proposed by President [[Richard Nixon]]; to be chiefly concerned with infrastructure)
* U.S. Department of Human Resources (proposed by President [[Richard Nixon]]; essentially a revised Department of Health, Education, and Welfare)
* U.S. Department of Economic Development (proposed by President [[Richard Nixon]]; essentially a consolidation of the Departments of Commerce and Labor)
* U.S. Department of Environmental Protection (proposed by Senator [[Arlen Specter]])
* U.S. Department of International Trade (proposed by the [[Heritage Foundation]])
* U.S. Department of Global Development (proposed by the [[Center for Global Development]] and others)
* U.S. Department of Culture (proposed by [[Quincy Jones]])<ref>{{Cite web| author = Clarke, Jr., John| title = Quincy Jones Lobbies Obama for Secretary of Culture Post| work=[[Rolling Stone]] | date = January 16, 2009| url = http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/15765/90864| accessdate =August 19, 2010}}</ref>
* U.S. Department of Business (proposed by President [[Barack Obama]])<ref>{{cite news| url=http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/10/29/obama-suggests-secretary-of-business-in-a-second-term/ | work=The Wall Street Journal | title=Obama Suggests ‘Secretary of Business’ in a 2nd Term - Washington Wire - WSJ}}</ref>
* U.S. Department of Intelligence (proposed by former [[Director of National Intelligence|DNI]] [[John Michael McConnell|Mike McConnell]])<ref>{{Cite web| author = J. Stapelton Roy| title = A Conversation with Michael McConnell| work=[[Council on Foreign Relations]] | date = June 29, 2007| url = http://www.cfr.org/intelligence/conversation-michael-mcconnell-rush-transcript-federal-news-service/p13703| accessdate =January 9, 2013}}</ref>
*U.S. Department of Natural Resources (proposed by [[William M. Daley|Bill Daley]] as a consolidation of the Departments of the Interior, Energy, and the EPA.)<ref>{{Cite web| author = Thrush, Glenn| title = Locked in the Cabinet| work=[[Politico]] | date =November 8, 2013| url = http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/locked-in-the-cabinet-99374_Page3.html| accessdate = November 18, 2013}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Confirmations of Barack Obama's Cabinet]]
* [[Black Cabinet]]
* [[Kitchen Cabinet]]
* [[List of United States Cabinets]]
** [[List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries]]
** [[List of African-American United States Cabinet Secretaries]]
** [[List of United States political appointments that crossed party lines]]
** [[List of people who have held multiple United States Cabinet-level positions]]
** [[List of people to hold U.S. Cabinet Secretaryships for ten years or more]]
** [[Living former members of the United States Cabinet]]
* [[St. Wapniacl]]

==References==
'''Notes'''
{{Reflist|30em}}

== Further reading ==
* Bennett, Anthony. ''The American President's Cabinet''. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1996. ISBN 0-333-60691-4. A study of the U.S. Cabinet from Kennedy to Clinton.
* Grossman, Mark. ''Encyclopedia of the United States Cabinet'' (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO; three volumes, 2000; reprint, New York: Greyhouse Publishing; two volumes, 2010). A history of the United States and Confederate States cabinets, their secretaries, and their departments.
* Rudalevige, Andrew. "The President and the Cabinet", in Michael Nelson, ed., ''The Presidency and the Political System'', 8th ed. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2006).

==External links==
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* [http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html Official site of the President's Cabinet]
* [http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/StateUnionCabinet.pdf U.S. Senate's list of cabinet members who did not attend the State of the Union Address (since 1984)]

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