Hotline's list of rumored appointees to the incoming administration -- culled from sources of varying reliability -- has already reached an impressive length just two weeks after Barack Obama won the presidency.
See below for the complete list, organized by department, of the players in D.C.'s favorite event, the name game (asterisk denotes that the individual has said publicly he or she does not wish to be considered):
State
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Ex-Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD)
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Ex-VP/ex-Sen. Al Gore (D-TN)*
Ex-UN Amb./ex-Asst. Sec/State Richard Holbrooke
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)
Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN)*
Ex-Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA)
NM Gov./ex-UN Amb./ex-Energy Sec. Bill Richardson (D)
Treasury
FDIC Chair/ex-Asst. Treas. Sec. Sheila Bair
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett
NJ Gov./ex-Sen./ex-Goldman Sachs Chair Jon Corzine (D)
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon
NY FED Bank Pres. Timothy Geithner
Ex-Treas. Sec. Robert Rubin
Ex-Treas. Sec./ex-Harvard Pres. Larry Summers
Ex-Council of Econ Advisers chair Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Ex-FED chair Paul Volcker
Defense
Ex-Sen./ex-VA Sec. Max Cleland (D-GA)
Ex-Navy Sec. Richard Danzig
Ex-Dep. Asst. Defense Sec. Michèle Flournoy
Defense Sec. Robert Gates
Ex-Dep. Defense Sec. John Hamre
Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)*
Complete list after the jump.
Justice
Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL)*
WI Gov. Jim Doyle (D)
Dem atty Ken Feinberg
U.S. Atty Patrick Fitzgerald (Northern Dist. of IL)
Ex-Dep. AG Jamie Gorelick
Ex-Dep. AG Eric Holder
Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan
AZ Gov. Janet Napolitano (D)
Ex-DoJ CoS David Ogden
MA Gov. Deval Patrick (D)*
VA Gov. Tim Kaine (D)*
Interior
Ex-OR Gov. John Kitzhaber (D)
Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO)
Agriculture
Ex-Daschle aide/ Nat'l Farmers Union pres. Tom Buis
Ex-Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)
Ex-Rep. Charles Stenholm (D-TX)
Ex-IA Gov. Tom Vilsack (D)
Commerce
Obama adviser Jason Furman
Chicago businesswoman/Obama finance chair Penny Pritzker
Labor
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA)
Prof./ex-Rep./ex-John Edwards mgr. David Bonior (D-MI)*
DNC vice chair/ex-AFL-CIO exec. VP Linda Chavez-Thompson
Ex-Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-MO)
MI Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)
American Rights at Work Exec. Dir. Mary Beth Maxwell
Rep. George Miller (D-CA)*
SEIU Pres. Andy Stern*
LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D)
HHS
Ex-Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD)
DNC Chair/ex-VT Gov. Howard Dean
Ex-OR Gov. John Kitzhaber (D)
KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D)
HUD
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC)
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz (I)
Ex-Dep. HUD Sec. Saul Ramirez
Transportation
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
Ex-Dep. Trans. Sec. Mortimer Downey
San Francisco Trans. Commission exec. dir. Steve Heminger
Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN)
Ex-Trans. Sec./ex-Energy Sec. Federico Peña
PA Gov./ex-DNC Chair Ed Rendell*
NYC Trans. Commis. Jeanette Sadik-Khan
Energy
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
MI Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)
PA Gov./ex-DNC Chair Ed Rendell*
Resources for the Future pres/ex-Rep. Philip Sharp (D-IN)
CA Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R)*
Education
Ex-WV Gov. Gaston Caperton (D)
Univ. of TX-Pan American Pres. Bambi Cárdenas
OR Superintendent of Public Instruction Susan Castillo
Achieve Pres. Michael Cohen
Stanford prof. Linda Darling-Hamilton
Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan
UC Berkeley Dean Christopher Edley
Ex-NC Gov. Jim Hunt (D)*
Mapleton Exped. School of the Arts Dir. Michael Johnston
VA Gov. Tim Kaine (D)*
NYC Schools Chancellor/ex-asst. AG Joel Klein
AZ Gov. Janet Napolitano (D)
Ex-Sec/State Colin Powell
DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee
Assn of Colleges for Teacher Educ. Pres. Sharon Robinson
Ex-Clinton adviser Andrew Rotherham
Ex-Clinton adviser Jonathan Schnur
KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D)
NEA dir. of gov't relations Diane Shust
Recovery School Dist. of New Orleans Supt. Paul Vallas
Ex-WV Gov. Bob Wise (D)
Vets Affairs
Ex-Sen./ex-VA Admin. Max Cleland (D-GA)
IL VA Dir./'06 IL-06 nominee Tammy Duckworth (D)
Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX)*
Ex-Fisher House Foundation Chair Arnold Fisher
VA Sec. James Peake
Homeland Security
LAPD Chief/ex-NYPD Commis. Bill Bratton
Ex-counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz (I)
Ex-Dep. AG Jamie Gorelick
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Ex-Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN)
Ex-NJ Gov. Tom Kean (R)
AZ Gov. Janet Napolitano
NYPD Commis. Ray Kelly
Ex-Rep. Tim Roemer (D-IN)
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)*
Ex-FEMA Dir. James Lee Witt
Army Secretary
Ex-Sen./ex-VA Sec. Max Cleland (D-GA)
Navy Secretary
State Rep. Juan Garcia (D-TX)
UN Ambassador
JFK daughter/atty/author Caroline Kennedy
Ex-State Dept. African specialist Susan Rice
NSA
Ex-Supreme NATO Comm./Gen. James Jones
Ex-State Dept. African specialist Susan Rice
Univ. of TX Dean/ex-Dep. NSA James Steinberg
CIA
Ex-CIA official John Brennan
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
CIA Dir./Gen. Michael Hayden
Ex-CIA Dep. Dir. for Intel Jami Miscik
EPA
MA Energy And Environmental Affairs Sec. Ian Bowles
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD)
Ex-NJ EPA Commis. Lisa Jackson
Environmental atty/radio host Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Ex-PA Environment Sec. Kathleen McGinty
Ex-EPA Admin./ex-NJ Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R)
CTO
Venture capitalist/Obama adviser Julius Genachowski
Level 3 Comm. CSO/ex-Al Gore adviser Don Gips
Oracle pres. Charles Phillips
Google CEO Eric Schmidt*
FCC Chair
SC Public Service Commission member Mignon Clyburn
Comm. atty Scott Blake Harris
Ex-FCC CoS Blair Levin
Council of Economic Advisers
Univ. of Chicago economist/adviser Austan Goolsbee
Ex-OMB Dir. Jacob Lew
Urban Czar
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz (I)
Drug Czar
Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-MN)
Climate Czar
Audubon Society Chair/ex-EPA Admin. Carol Browner
Ex-VP/ex-Sen. Al Gore (D-TN)*
World Resources Institute Pres. Jonathan Lash
Ex-PA Environment Sec. Kathleen McGinty
AZ Gov. Janet Napolitano (D)
CA Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols
KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D)
Auto Czar
MI Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)
Intellectual Property Czar
RIAA lobbyist/ex-Clinton aide Michele Ballantyne
Sen. Feinstein aide Jennifer Duck
Ex-first asst. trade rep. for IP Victoria Espinel
NBCU gov't relations chief Alec French
Business Software Alliance VP/ex-Biden aide Neil McBride
Ex-Time Warner atty Shira Perlmutter
American Federation of Musicians' Hal Ponder
Sen. Bayh aide Jayme Roth
Rep. Berman aide Shanna Winters
Small Business Admin.
Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY)
Peace Corps
Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT)
FAA Admin.
Sen. Reid aide/NV Army Nat'l Guard Dep. Comm. Bob Herbert
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