Atlas Forum Office Holders

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

If we create any more government jobs, half the people on Fantasy Elections will be working for the government. I think we now have 27, counting the governors.

The main point of John's proposal isn't to create more fantasy positions, but to specify what portions of the real government correspond to our six fantasy deptartments.
He leff off his list the existing Secretary of Labor who certainly could handle want he envisions for a Secretary of HEW

That said, here's how I'd prefer to see the division of the real-life cabinet and some of the more important independent agencies:

State
State
Interior
Transportation
FCC
GSA

Defense
Defense
Veteran's Affairs
Homeland Security
CIA
NSA
NASA

Treasury
Treasury
Agriculture
Commerce
Energy
SBA

Attorney General
Justice
FBI
SEC
CPSC
EPA

Labor
Labor
Health and Human Services
Housing and Urban Development
Education
SSA
EEOC

Forum Affairs
FEC

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

We don't have a Labor secretary because Gustaf chose to not appoint one.  Tecnhically, the constitution still calls for a Secretary of Labor as one of the five constitutionally mandated Cabinet positions.  If Gustaf wanted to, he could nominate one and doing so would certainly be the easiest way to have a dedicated social services secretary.

USAID was an independent agency until '98 when most of the independent foreign affairs agencies got merged into the State Department.  The aministarion of USAID still has a fair degree of independence from the State Department as Powell can't just transfer functions to or from it as is often the case with department bureaus, but if it is something the law says  that USAID is supposed to do, Powell can tell Natsios how he wants it done, and Natsios has to do it that way.

Granted, a large chunk of Energy's budget is tied up with nuclear weapons production, and the cleaning up of old production facilities, but it doesn't deploy the weapons itself, so in that respect iit just functions as a government owned defense contractor.  The rest of its functions are not directly defense related.  If Energy were eliminated, most of its functions would transfer to Commerce, and if Commerce were eliminated, most of its functions would transfer to Treasury, so within the existing Forum cabinet departments, Energy best fits in with Treasury in my opinion.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Updated with new Cabinet Members.

Technically, they need to take the oath of office first before the Secretaries-confirmed become full fledged Secretaries.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The Southeastern Constitution doesn't provide for holding our elections a weekend earlier in December.  The next election for Southeastern Governor will be on the weekend of December 17th, not the weekend of December 10th.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Isn't the Senate 3A seat is vacant now, since Senator hughento moved out of the district to Oregon?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yep. I didn't want to be a lame duck senator

So you decided to become an Orgeon Duck instead?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Of course the perrenial question that must be asked of Austrailian Rules Football is "It has rules?"

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Ernest resigned, but everything else looks right

My resignation doesn't take effect until Thursday, so I'm still Governor until then, altho I have removed the title from my profile