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Appoint cabinet-level Chief Technology Officer was completed with a compromise Sat Apr 18 18:34:13 +0000 2009 1 comment
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Jim Gilliam Sat Apr 18 18:34:46 +0000 2009

This is not a cabinet level position, but the President did finally appoint a CTO, along with a Chief Performance Officer as well. More details here:

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Appoint and Elevate Science Advisor to Cabinet was completed successfully Fri Mar 13 03:53:08 +0000 2009 7 comments
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Jim Gilliam Fri Mar 13 03:54:38 +0000 2009

From Chris Mooney at scienceblogs.com: “There are many gems in here; scientists are going to be beyond ecstatic about this speech, and this team that Obama has named. To me, the newsiest item is that Obama officially says that John Holdren will be ‘Assistant to the President for Science and Technology.’ That means the science adviser is being restored to cabinet-level status, as Obama pledged would occur during the campaign.”

http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2008/12/obama_announces_science_team_r.php
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Paul Andrew Wilson Wed Apr 08 03:57:35 +0000 2009

I think you hit it on the nail. “Whatever.”
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volkris Wed Apr 08 04:46:00 +0000 2009

Maybe it doesn’t matter whether the guy is cabinet level or not, which means that the priority was poorly thought out. Either way, the guy isn’t cabinet level now and seems pretty removed from such a position.

Half of this priority is “elevation,” suggesting that Obama should change the organization of the executive branch to MAKE the science advisor cabinet-level. As far as I can tell there has been no reorganization at all, so there was absolutely no elevation.

Therefore, I consider this priority to not have happened. At best only half of it happened, and that with an extreme compromise… but I’d tend to say it didn’t happen at all as the distinguishing features of cabinet level position—leading a division of the executive branch—just don’t apply to the position the guy was given.
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