Editing Cabinet of the United States (section)

==Proposed Cabinet departments==
* Department of Industry and Commerce, proposed by Secretary of the Treasury [[William Windom (politician)|William Windom]] in a speech given at a Chamber of Commerce dinner in May 1881.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1881/05/13/archives/a-department-of-commerce.html|title=A Department of Commerce|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1881-05-13}}</ref>
* Department of Natural Resources, proposed by the [[Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower administration]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gFiOK24ZASgC&q=Eisenhower+proposes+Department+of+Natural+Resources&pg=PA159|title=Improving Management and Organization in Federal Natural Resources and Environmental Functions: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, U. S. Senate|date=April 1, 1998|publisher=Diane Publishing|access-date=February 20, 2017|via=Google Books|quote=Chairman Stevens. Thank you very much. I think both of you are really pointing in the same direction as this Committee. I do hope we can keep it on a bipartisan basis. Mr. Dean, when I was at the Interior Department, I drafted Eisenhower's Department of Natural Resources proposal, and we have had a series of them that have been presented.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114195305/https://books.google.com/books?id=gFiOK24ZASgC&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&dq=Eisenhower%20proposes%20Department%20of%20Natural%20Resources#v=onepage&q=Eisenhower%20proposes%20Department%20of%20Natural%20Resources|archive-date=January 14, 2019|url-status=live|isbn=9780788148743}}</ref> President [[Richard Nixon]],<ref name="Nixon">{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2951|title=116—Special Message to the Congress on Executive Branch Reorganization|work=The University of California, Santa Barbara—The American Presidency Project|quote=The administration is today transmitting to the Congress four bills which, if enacted, would replace seven of the present executive departments and several other agencies with four new departments: the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Community Development, the Department of Human Resources and the Department of Economic Affairs.|access-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214101500/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2951|archive-date=February 14, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[1976 Republican National Convention|1976 GOP national platform]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25843|title=Republican Party Platform of 1976|date=August 18, 1976|work=The University of California, Santa Barbara—The American Presidency Project|access-date=March 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402094440/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25843|archive-date=April 2, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> and by [[William M. Daley|Bill Daley]] (as a consolidation of the Departments of the Interior and Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency).<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|access-date=November 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131117102623/http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/locked-in-the-cabinet-99374_Page3.html|archive-date=November 17, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Department of Peace]], proposed by [[Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Father]] [[Benjamin Rush]] in 1793, Senator [[Matthew M. Neely|Matthew Neely]] in the 1930s, Congressman [[Dennis Kucinich]], 2020 and 2024 presidential candidate [[Marianne Williamson]], and other members of the U.S. Congress.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/essaysliterarym00rushgoog|quote=benjamin rush peace plan office.|chapter=A plan of a Peace-Office for the United States|title=Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical.|last=Rush|first=Benjamin, M.D.|year=1806|edition=2nd|pages=[https://archive.org/details/essaysliterarym00rushgoog/page/n197 183]–188|publisher=Thomas and William Bradford, Philadelphia|accessdate=2010-06-03}}</ref><ref name='Schuman'>{{cite book | last = Schuman | first = Frederick L. | title = Why a Department of Peace | publisher = Another Mother for Peace | year = 1969 | location = Beverly Hills | pages = 56 | oclc = 339785 | df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepeacealliance.org/content/view/54/130/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720174929/http://www.thepeacealliance.org/content/view/54/130/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-07-20|title=History of Legislation to Create a Dept. of Peace}}</ref>
* Department of Social Welfare, proposed by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in January 1937.<ref name="Roosevelt">{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15342|work=The University of California, Santa Barbara—The American Presidency Project|title=10—Summary of the Report of the Committee on Administrative Management|quote=Overhaul the more than 100 separate departments, boards, commissions, administrations, authorities, corporations, committees, agencies and activities which are now parts of the Executive Branch, and theoretically under the President, and consolidate them within twelve regular departments, which would include the existing ten departments and two new departments, a Department of Social Welfare, and a Department of Public Works. Change the name of the Department of Interior to Department of Conservation.|access-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213164512/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15342|archive-date=February 13, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Department of Public Works, proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1937.<ref name="Roosevelt"/>
* Department of Conservation (renamed Department of the Interior), proposed by President Franklin Roosevelt in January 1937.<ref name="Roosevelt"/>
* Department of Urban Affairs and Housing, proposed by President [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8699|title=23—Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 1 of 1962|work=The University of California, Santa Barbara—The American Presidency Project|access-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214002721/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8699|archive-date=February 14, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Department of Business and Labor, proposed by President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28141|title=121–Special Message to the Congress: The Quality of American Government|work=The University of California, Santa Barbara—The American Presidency Project|quote=In my State of the Union Address, and later in my Budget and Economic Messages to the Congress, I proposed the creation of a new Department of Business and Labor.|access-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214002341/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28141|archive-date=February 14, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Department of Community Development, proposed by President Richard Nixon; to be chiefly concerned with rural infrastructure development.<ref name="Nixon"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3608|title=33—Special Message to the Congress on Rural Development|work=The University of California, Santa Barbara—The American Presidency Project|access-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214002722/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3608|archive-date=February 14, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Department of Human Resources, proposed by President Richard Nixon; essentially a revised Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.<ref name="Nixon"/>
* Department of Economic Affairs, proposed by President Richard Nixon; essentially a consolidation of the Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Agriculture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2951|title=116—Special Message to the Congress on Executive Branch Reorganization|work=The University of California, Santa Barbara—The American Presidency Project|quote=The new Department of Economic Affairs would include many of the offices that are now within the Departments of Commerce, Labor and Agriculture. A large part of the Department of Transportation would also be relocated here, including the United States Coast Guard, the Federal Railroad Administration, the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, the National Transportation Safety Board, the Transportation Systems Center, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Motor Carrier Safety Bureau and most of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The Small Business Administration, the Science Information Exchange program from the Smithsonian Institution, the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Office of Technology Utilization from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration would also be included in the new Department.|access-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214101500/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2951|archive-date=February 14, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Department of Environmental Protection, proposed by Senator [[Arlen Specter]] and others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/Notebook/Note_02-RMSP3.htm|title=Public Notes on 02-RMSP3|access-date=February 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613094946/http://www.ontheissues.org/Notebook/Note_02-RMSP3.htm|archive-date=June 13, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* Department of Intelligence, proposed by former [[Director of National Intelligence]] [[Mike McConnell (U.S. Naval officer)|Mike McConnell]].<ref>{{Cite web| title = A Conversation with Michael McConnell| work=[[Council on Foreign Relations]] (Federal News Service, rush transcript)| date = June 29, 2007| url = http://www.cfr.org/intelligence/conversation-michael-mcconnell-rush-transcript-federal-news-service/p13703| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130117042421/http://www.cfr.org/intelligence/conversation-michael-mcconnell-rush-transcript-federal-news-service/p13703| url-status = dead| archive-date = January 17, 2013| access-date =January 9, 2013}}</ref>
* Department of Global Development, proposed by the [[Center for Global Development]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cgdev.org/article/time-cabinet-level-us-department-global-development|title=Time for a Cabinet-Level U.S. Department of Global Development|work=The Center for Global Development|access-date=February 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114195305/https://www.cgdev.org/article/time-cabinet-level-us-department-global-development|archive-date=January 14, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Department of Art, proposed by [[Quincy Jones]].<ref>{{Cite magazine| author = Clarke, John Jr.| title = Quincy Jones Lobbies Obama for Secretary of Culture Post| magazine = [[Rolling Stone]]| date = January 16, 2009| url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/15765/90864| archive-url = https://archive.today/20120908204104/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/15765/90864| url-status = dead| archive-date = September 8, 2012| access-date = August 19, 2010}}</ref>
* Department of Business, proposed by President [[Barack Obama]] as a consolidation of the U.S. Department of Commerce's core business and trade functions, the Small Business Administration, the [[Office of the United States Trade Representative|Office of the U.S. Trade Representative]], the [[Export–Import Bank of the United States|Export-Import Bank]], the [[Overseas Private Investment Corporation]], and the [[United States Trade and Development Agency|U.S. Trade and Development Agency]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/13/president-obama-announces-proposal-reform-reorganize-and-consolidate-gov|title=President Obama Announces proposal to reform, reorganize and consolidate Government|access-date=February 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211080315/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/13/president-obama-announces-proposal-reform-reorganize-and-consolidate-gov|archive-date=February 11, 2017|url-status=live|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://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|access-date=August 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301053228/http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/10/29/obama-suggests-secretary-of-business-in-a-second-term/|archive-date=March 1, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* Department of Education and the Workforce, proposed by President [[Donald Trump]] as a consolidation of the Departments of Education and Labor.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/21/622189097/white-house-proposes-merging-education-and-labor-departments|title=White House Proposes Merging Education And Labor Departments|work=NPR.org|access-date=2018-06-22|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621234348/https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/06/21/622189097/white-house-proposes-merging-education-and-labor-departments|archive-date=June 21, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* Department of Health and Public Welfare, proposed by President [[Donald Trump]] as a renamed Department of Health and Human Services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf|title=Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century {{!}} Reform Plan and Reorganization Recommendations|date=2018|website=[[whitehouse.gov]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412132813/https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf|archive-date=April 12, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Department of Economic Development, proposed by Senator [[Elizabeth Warren]] to replace the Commerce Department, subsume other agencies like the Small Business Administration and the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent and Trademark Office]], and include research and development programs, worker training programs, and export and trade authorities like the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative with the single goal of creating and protecting American jobs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/@teamwarren/a-plan-for-economic-patriotism-13b879f4cfc7|title=A Plan For Economic Patriotism|last=Warren|first=Team|date=2019-06-04|website=Medium|language=en|access-date=2019-07-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190731023456/https://medium.com/@teamwarren/a-plan-for-economic-patriotism-13b879f4cfc7|archive-date=July 31, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Department of Technology, proposed by businessman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate [[Andrew Yang]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yang2020.com/policies/regulating-ai-emerging-technologies/|title=Regulate AI and other Emerging Technologies|website=Andrew Yang for President|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820174006/https://www.yang2020.com/policies/regulating-ai-emerging-technologies/|archive-date=August 20, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Department of Culture, patterned on similar departments in many foreign nations, proposed by, among others, [[Murray Moss]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Garber|first=Megan|date=2013-07-01|title=Should the U.S. Have a Secretary of Culture?|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/07/should-the-us-have-a-secretary-of-culture/277409/|access-date=2021-01-22|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US}}</ref> and Jeva Lange.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-16|title=Hey Joe—appoint a culture secretary|url=https://theweek.com/articles/949759/hey-joe--appoint-culture-secretary|access-date=2021-01-22|website=theweek.com|language=en}}</ref>
* When he was SEC Chairman, [[Harvey Pitt]] proposed that the [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission|Securities and Exchange Commission]] be elevated to Cabinet level. In July 2002, ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote: "[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] members of Congress joined administration officials today in ridiculing Harvey L. Pitt's request that his pay be increased and his job as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission be elevated to Cabinet rank ... evoking an outpouring of bipartisan scorn."<ref name=autogenerated3>Stephen Labaton (July 25, 2002). [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/business/sec-chief-draws-ridicule-in-quest-for-higher-status.html "S.E.C. Chief Draws Ridicule In Quest for Higher Status,"<!-- Bot generated title -->] ''The New York Times''.</ref> Pitt had tried to insert a provision into corporate antifraud legislation increasing his pay by 21%, and also elevating his status to Cabinet level, at a time when the stock markets had sunk to five-year lows and some congressional leaders were calling for his resignation.<ref name="autoab">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/09/business/top-democrats-and-white-house-battle-over-sec-chairman.html|title=Top Democrats and White House Battle Over S.E.C. Chairman|first=Stephen|last=Labaton|date=October 9, 2002|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>Stephen Labaton (November 6, 2002). [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/06/business/sec-s-embattled-chief-resigns-in-wake-of-latest-political-storm.html "S.E.C.'s Embattled Chief Resigns In Wake of Latest Political Storm,"<!-- Bot generated title -->] ''The New York Times''.</ref><ref>[https://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/SEC-Harvey-Chairman-Pitt-shows-a-tin-ear-2099758.php "SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt shows a tin ear,"<!-- Bot generated title -->] ''Houston Chronicle'', July 25, 2002.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chron.com/business/article/lawmakers-blast-pitt-s-pay-request-2069371.php|title=Lawmakers blast Pitt's pay request|date=July 25, 2002|website=Chron}}</ref>