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The United States on January 5, 2003

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President
Bush
George Walker Bush R · since Jan 20, 2001
Senate
37 D · 29 R
66 senators · 108th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
7 R · 2 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
50 states
27 amendments in force
Unemployment
6%
Dec 2002 · $1 then ≈ $1.86 today
Public debt
$6.38T
as of Jan 3, 2003 · 2 armed conflicts
2003-01-05/executiveThe administration
President George Walker Bush R
since Jan 20, 2001
Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney R
Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet D
since Dec 15, 1996
Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman R
since Jan 20, 2001
Secretary of Education Rod Paige R
since Jan 20, 2001
Secretary of State Colin Powell R
since Jan 20, 2001
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham R
since Jan 20, 2001
Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans R
since Jan 20, 2001
White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card R
since Jan 20, 2001
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld R
since Jan 20, 2001
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao R
since Jan 20, 2001
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mitch Daniels R
since Jan 23, 2001
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi R
since Jan 23, 2001
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Mel Martínez R
since Jan 24, 2001
Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta D
since Jan 25, 2001
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Christine Todd Whitman R
since Jan 31, 2001
Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton R
since Jan 31, 2001
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson R
since Feb 2, 2001
Attorney General John Ashcroft R
since Feb 2, 2001
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick R
since Feb 7, 2001
Administrator of the Small Business Administration Hector Barreto R
since Jul 25, 2001
Ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte R
since Sep 19, 2001
2003-01-05/congress108th Congress
Senate · 37 D · 29 R
Blanche Lambert Lincoln (Democrat, AR)Barbara Boxer (Democrat, CA)Dianne Feinstein (Democrat, CA)Christopher J. Dodd (Democrat, CT)Joseph I. Lieberman (Democrat, CT)Thomas R. Carper (Democrat, DE)Bob Graham (Democrat, FL)Bill Nelson (Democrat, FL)Zell Bryan Miller (Democrat, GA)Daniel K. Inouye (Democrat, HI)Daniel K. Akaka (Democrat, HI)Evan Bayh (Democrat, IN)John B. Breaux (Democrat, LA)Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat, MA)Barbara A. Mikulski (Democrat, MD)Paul S. Sarbanes (Democrat, MD)Debbie Stabenow (Democrat, MI)Mark Dayton (Democrat, MN)John Reid Edwards (Democrat, NC)Byron L. Dorgan (Democrat, ND)Kent Conrad (Democrat, ND)Ben Nelson (Democrat, NE)Jon Stevens Corzine (Democrat, NJ)Jeff Bingaman (Democrat, NM)Harry Reid (Democrat, NV)Charles E. Schumer (Democrat, NY)Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democrat, NY)Ron Wyden (Democrat, OR)Ernest F. Hollings (Democrat, SC)Thomas A. Daschle (Democrat, SD)Patrick J. Leahy (Democrat, VT)Patty Murray (Democrat, WA)Maria Cantwell (Democrat, WA)Russell D. Feingold (Democrat, WI)Herb Kohl (Democrat, WI)Robert C. Byrd (Democrat, WV)James M. Jeffords (Independent, VT)Richard C. Shelby (Republican, AL)John McCain (Republican, AZ)Jon Kyl (Republican, AZ)Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Republican, CO)Chuck Grassley (Republican, IA)Mike Crapo (Republican, ID)Peter G. Fitzgerald (Republican, IL)Richard G. Lugar (Republican, IN)Samuel D. Brownback (Republican, KS)Jim Bunning (Republican, KY)Olympia J. Snowe (Republican, ME)Christopher S. Bond (Republican, MO)James M. Talent (Republican, MO)Trent Lott (Republican, MS)Conrad Burns (Republican, MT)Judd A. Gregg (Republican, NH)John Eric Ensign (Republican, NV)George V. Voinovich (Republican, OH)Michael DeWine (Republican, OH)Don Nickles (Republican, OK)Arlen Specter (Republican, PA)Richard J. Santorum (Republican, PA)Lincoln D. Chafee (Republican, RI)William H. Frist (Republican, TN)Kay Bailey Hutchison (Republican, TX)Robert F. Bennett (Republican, UT)Orrin G. Hatch (Republican, UT)George Felix Allen (Republican, VA)Craig Thomas (Republican, WY)
House ·
2003-01-05/supreme-courtThe bench
John Paul Stevens R
Associate Justice · appointed by Gerald Ford · since Dec 17, 1975
Sandra Day O'Connor R
Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 22, 1981
William Hubbs Rehnquist R
Chief Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 25, 1986
Antonin Scalia R
Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 25, 1986
Anthony McLeod Kennedy R
Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Feb 11, 1988
David Hackett Souter R
Associate Justice · appointed by George H.W. Bush · since Oct 3, 1990
Clarence Thomas R
Associate Justice · appointed by George H.W. Bush · since Oct 18, 1991
Ruth Bader Ginsburg D
Associate Justice · appointed by William J. Clinton · since Aug 5, 1993
Stephen Gerald Breyer D
Associate Justice · appointed by William J. Clinton · since Aug 3, 1994
2003-01-05/militaryArmed conflicts under way
War against al-Qaida
since Sep 11, 2001 · U.S. principal party
War in Afghanistan (Taliban insurgency)
since Jan 1, 2003 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat
2003-01-05/weekWithin a week · Dec 29, 2002 – Jan 12, 2003
Order Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
Dec 31, 2002 · EO 13282
War + War in Afghanistan (Taliban insurgency)
Jan 1, 2003 · UCDP
Agency − Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Jan 1, 2003 · other
Agency + Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate
Jan 1, 2003 · sub_agency
Agency + DHS Management Directorate
Jan 1, 2003 · sub_agency
Agency + DHS Office of Health Affairs
Jan 1, 2003 · sub_agency
Agency + Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
Jan 1, 2003 · sub_agency
Agency + United States Chief Human Capital Officers Council
Jan 1, 2003 · other
Law An act to provide for a 5-month extension of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 and for a transition period for individuals receiving compensation when the program under such Act ends
Jan 8, 2003 · Pub. L. 108-1
Law Joint resolution making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2003, and for other purposes
Jan 10, 2003 · Pub. L. 108-2

Each office is shown as it stood at the end of the day. Cabinet records come from Wikidata and have gaps for some historical offices.