1.   And Norman Mineta, nominated to be transportation secretary, relied greatly on money from the transportation industry as a US House member and previously worked for Lockheed Martin.

2.   And she mentioned her role as a negotiator with China on aviation and maritime matters as transportation secretary.

3.   Another New York Democrat, Rep. Louise Slaughter, wrote to the transportation secretary, also seeking a merger moratorium.

4.   A favorite line of Republican presidential aspirant Elizabeth Dole is her boast about how, as transportation secretary, she championed emergency aisle safety lights on airplanes.

5.   A spokesman for the Transportation Department, Chet Lunner, said that Norman Y. Mineta, the transportation secretary, would not ask Congress for an extension.

6.   After months of reports about the growing scandal, Hunt removed the transportation secretary, Garland Garrett, and made him a staff lobbyist.

7.   Bush aides have privately confirmed that he has settled on Colin Powell as his secretary of state and former transportation secretary Andrew Card as his chief of staff.

8.   Bush said former transportation secretary Andrew Card will serve as his White House chief of staff.

9.   Card, who is from Massachusetts, was transportation secretary in the first Bush administration.

10.   Card had served as his transportation secretary.