Trade Representative to Step Down
Posted at 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 23
Al Kamen reports that US Trade Representative Ron Kirk will step down at the end of February.
“Possible successors include Fred Hochberg, a businessman who had been acting Small Business Administration chief in the Clinton Administration and is now chairman of the Export-Import Bank; Francisco Sanchez, currently Commerce undersecretary for international trade and before that assistant secretary of transportation in the Clinton administration; and Jeff Zients, former CEO of The Advisory Board Co. and now acting director of the Office of Managment and Budget.”
