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The secretary also serves on and appoints the private citizens on the National Park Foundation Board. The secretary is a member of the United States Cabinet and reports to the president of the United States. The function of the U.S. Department of the Interior is different from that of the interior minister designated in many other countries.
Pages in category "United States secretaries of the interior" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
On April 10, 2013, the Senate confirmed Jewell to be Secretary of the Interior in an 87–11 vote. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] She was sworn in as Secretary of the Interior on April 12, 2013. As Secretary of the Interior she oversaw the Interior Department, which has a budget of $11 billion, employs 70,000 people, and acted as steward for twenty percent of ...
A major factor in the scandal was a transfer of certain oil leases from the jurisdiction of the Department of the Navy to that of the Department of the Interior, at Fall's behest. Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt faced criticism for his alleged hostility to environmentalism, for his support of the development and use of federal lands by ...
Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Land and Minerals Management) Vacant Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Policy, Management, and Budget) Susan Combs: June 5, 2019 Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Water and Science) Timothy R. Petty January 31, 2018 (Confirmed December 21, 2017, voice vote) Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Indian ...
Others of Trump's nominees, though, have followed more unusual paths to government service. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose controversial nomination barely made it through the Senate on ...
Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27, 1938) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 47th United States Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He previously served as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1988 Democratic ...
Debra Anne Haaland (/ ˈ h ɑː l ə n d /; [1] born December 2, 1960) is an American politician who served as the 54th United States secretary of the interior from 2021 to 2025. [2] A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S. representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 2019 to 2021 and as chair of the New Mexico Democratic Party from 2015 to 2017.