Department of Transportation - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of Transportation Index / Organizations Transcripts Cass Sunstein ...based on a noun about, let's say, the Department of Transportation or the very idea of an administrativ... ...be some regulation of trucks, and the Department of Transportation thinks it's a terrible idea, chance... ...are it's not going to happen. If the Department of Transportation wants to do something involvin... Byron Auguste ...of others—Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation , etc. And he invited a bunch o... Ronald Klain ...with no Senate confirmation at the Transportation Department , who's in charge of deciding how wast... Julianna Smoot ...think it was the White House liaison at Department of Transportation . And I was like, “How do you eve... Sam Kass ...Control and Prevention], of course HHS, Department of Transportation ; everybody was there basically. Thes... Jordan Brooks ...and Space Administration] and the Department of Transportation , were thinking about how thei... ...affects women and girls, or even at the Transportation Department , which is my favorite example to us... Ray LaHood ...DC, like, every day. I would go over to DOT [Department of Transportation]. The... ...every day. I would go over to DOT [ Department of Transportation ]. They had an office there. And it wa... ...talking about the different issues that DOT was going to face, and what I might b... ...of my team, and we built a great team. DOT has over a hundred politica... ...receive people who are interested in DOT jobs. His name is Nate Turnbull, an... ...money for Obama in Boston and came to DOT as the White House liaison. So h... ...every person that we ever hired at DOT . I felt it was important for thos... ...lot of people wanted to work at DOT . And so we hired people from Capito... ...at that time to scale up or establish DOT 's budget priorities with th... ...this by saying that Sam Skinner, former DOT secretary from Illinois, met me on th... ...thing that he told me, when you go to DOT , what you're going to find ar... ...Development] was doing. They knew what DOT was doing, and so on, and s... ...But we had great success with the—at DOT , our partners are the governors an... ...a classic example where the DOT secretary lending their office, lendin... ...and that is the responsibility of DOT , to talk about safety. When I had m... ...safety, which was a—is a part of DOT . We worked with the EPA, at th... ...it is. It's there. It's part of the DOT responsibility. And if it becomes ... ...know, I would say all the time, being DOT secretary was the greatest job I'v... Show more... Anthony Foxx ...years. I immediately headed down to the DOT [Department of Transportation] to solv... ...I immediately headed down to the DOT [ Department of Transportation ] to solve that. It was a goo... ...and NEC—and even internally, within the Department of Transportation —there was a lot of people like, “Wha... ...a filing of civil rights complaints to DOT that you then take up. What was workin... ...your civil rights office, within the Department of Transportation , was sufficiently supported, or wa... ...And I think the civil rights part of DOT went back to being ineffective. Wha... ...to thinking about the role of DOT and transportation into the future i... Show more... Ron Kirk ...mayors sometimes go to the Department of Transportation —because of our involvement i... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the The People's House The People's House go to the Russia Russia go to the Education Education