Acting Commerce Secretary Blank Leaving Post by July
Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank will become chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in July, she said in an email sent to Commerce employees March 18. Blank said she "is not going anywhere in the near future" and said…
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she looks forward to advancing the department's program and policy issues, in her email. Blank took over as acting secretary after John Bryson took a medical leave of absence last June following reports that he suffered a seizure related to three car accidents. President Barack Obama thanked Blank for her service in a statement Monday (here). Obama did not say who he would nominate as her replacement.