Bush administration (2000)

The Bush Cabinet
Office	Name	Term
President	George W. Bush	2001–2009
Vice President	Dick Cheney	2001–2009
Secretary of State	Colin Powell	2001–2005
	Condoleezza Rice	2005–2009
Secretary of Treasury	Paul O'Neill	2001–2002
	John W. Snow	2003–2006
	Henry Paulson	2006–2009
Secretary of Defense	Donald Rumsfeld	2001–2006
	Robert Gates	2006–2009
Attorney General	John Ashcroft	2001–2005
	Alberto Gonzales	2005–2007
	Michael Mukasey	2007–2009
Secretary of the Interior	Gale Norton	2001–2006
	Dirk Kempthorne	2006–2009
Secretary of Agriculture	Ann Veneman	2001–2005
	Mike Johanns	2005–2007
	Ed Schafer	2008–2009
Secretary of Commerce	Donald Evans	2001–2005
	Carlos Gutierrez	2005–2009
Secretary of Labor	Elaine Chao	2001–2009
Secretary of Health and Human Services	Tommy Thompson	2001–2005
	Mike Leavitt	2005–2009
Secretary of Education	Rod Paige	2001–2005
	Margaret Spellings	2005–2009
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Mel Martinez	2001–2003
	Alphonso Jackson	2003–2008
	Steve Preston	2008–2009
Secretary of Transportation	Norman Mineta	2001–2006
	Mary Peters	2006–2009
Secretary of Energy	Spencer Abraham	2001–2005
	Samuel Bodman	2005–2009
Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Anthony Principi	2001–2005
	Jim Nicholson	2005–2007
	James Peake	2007–2009
Secretary of Homeland Security	Tom Ridge	2003–2005
	Michael Chertoff	2005–2009
Chief of Staff	Andrew Card	2001–2006
	Joshua Bolten	2006–2009
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Christine Todd Whitman	2001–2003
	Mike Leavitt	2003–2005
	Stephen L. Johnson	2005–2009
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Mitch Daniels	2001–2003
	Joshua Bolten	2003–2006
	Rob Portman	2006–2007
	Jim Nussle	2007–2009
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy	John P. Walters	2001–2009
United States Trade Representative	Robert Zoellick	2001–2005
	Rob Portman	2005–2006
	Susan Schwab	2006–2009

The presidency of George W. Bush began on January 20, 2001 at noon Eastern Standard Time, when George W. Bush was inaugurated as President of the United States. Bush's presidency ended on January 20, 2009. A Republican, he took office following a very close win in the 2000 presidential election over Democratic nominee Al Gore, the then–incumbent Vice President. Bush, the 43rd United States president, is the son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush. Bush was re-elected in 2004, defeating his Democratic opponent John Kerry. He was succeeded in office by Democrat Barack Obama, who won the 2008 presidential election.

Upon taking office, Bush pushed through a $1.3 trillion tax cut program and the No Child Left Behind Act, a major education bill. He also pushed for socially conservative efforts, such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and faith-based welfare initiatives. After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Bush declared a global war on terrorism and, in October 2001, ordered an invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, destroy the terrorist group al-Qaeda, and capture Osama bin Laden. That same month, he signed into law the controversial Patriot Act in order to strengthen security and allow for greater surveillance. In 2003, Bush ordered an invasion of Iraq, asserting that Iraq possessed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1441. Later that year, he signed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which created Medicare Part D and made other changes to Medicare.

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