White House to Keep Obama’s ‘Czars’ from Testifying Before Congress
Among the czars Congress wanted information on:
-- Energy and Environment Czar Carol Browner (whose official title is Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change)
-- Health Czar Nancy Ann DeParle (Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform)
-- International Climate Czar Todd Stern (Special Envoy for Climate Change)
-- Guantanamo Closure Czar Daniel Fried (Special Envoy to Oversee the Closure of the Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay)
-- Urban Affairs Czar Adolfo Carrion Jr. (White House Director of Urban Affairs);
-- Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg (Special Master on Executive Pay)
-- Afghanistan Czar Richard Holbrooke (Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan)
-- Auto Recovery Czar Ed Montgomery (Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers)
-- Car Czar (Manufacturing Policy) Ron Bloom (Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury)
-- Domestic Violence Czar Lynn Rosenthal (White House Advisor on Violence Against Women)
-- Economic Czar Paul Volcker (Chairman of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board)
-- Senior Director for Information Sharing Policy Mike Resnick
-- WMD Policy Czar Gary Samore (White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control)
-- Great Lakes Czar Cameron Davis (Special advisor to the U.S. EPA overseeing its Great Lakes restoration plan)
-- Central Region Czar Dennis Ross
-- Border Czar Alan Bersin (Special Representative for Border Affairs and Assistant Secretary of State for International Affairs)
Two of the positions – the Green Jobs Czar and the Cybersecurity Czar -- are unfilled. Van Jones, who was first appointed to the Green Jobs post, resigned recently under fire.
Remember when Barack Obama promised transparency and open government?
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