31.   Pena had been widely criticized as transportation secretary during the first Clinton term, even by other members of the Cabinet.

32.   Rehmus termed such involvement by a transportation secretary unusual.

33.   Rodney Slater, the transportation secretary who watched the Senate vote from the gallery, said he thought President Clinton would support significantly expanding transportation spending.

34.   Senators also confirmed former U.S. Rep. Norman Mineta as transportation secretary, making him the only Democrat in the Bush Cabinet.

35.   She was a deputy transportation secretary in the Bush administration and the head of the Federal Maritime Administration in the Reagan administration.

36.   She was the director of speech writing and research for James H. Burnley when he served as transportation secretary.

37.   Sweeney, national president of the AFL-CIO, last monthvisited the new US transportation secretary, Rodney Slater, to lobby for the Quincy yard.

38.   That commitment would be set by the US transportation secretary.

39.   The amount is based on a performance review by the transportation secretary.

40.   The approvals may well prod British officials to address U.S. concerns, said Patrick Murphy, deputy assistant U.S. transportation secretary.