President Obama convened the first Cabinet meeting of his second term today, even as he continued to fill seats left open at that table. Sylvia Burwell, the president of the Wal Mart Foundation, was nominated to head the Office of Management and Budget.She served as deputy director of that agency during the Clinton administration.And the president's picks on energy and environment brought other policy priorities into sharper focus. Everybody, have a seat. Have a seat. The president filled two more seats for his second term Cabinet this morning, the nominees: Ernest Moniz, who would be energy secretary,and Gina McCarthy, who would run the Environmental Protection Agency. Both require Senate confirmation. They 're going to be making sure that we 're investing in American energy, that we 're doing everything that we can to combat the threat of climate change, that we 're going to be creating jobs and economic opportunity in the first place.They are going to be a great team.And these are some of my top priorities going forward. Moniz is an MIT physicist who runs an energy initiative on new ways to produce power and curb emissions.He also served as undersecretary of energy during the Clinton administration. McCarthy already works in the administration as assistant administrator for the's EPA Office of Air and Radiation.She has run state environmental agencies in Connecticut and Massachusetts, working for five governors, including Mitt Romney.Moniz and McCarthy would replace outgoing Cabinet members Steven Chu and Lisa Jackson.
