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The United States on January 4, 2015

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

President
Obama
Barack Hussein Obama D · since Jan 20, 2013
Senate
34 D · 30 R
64 senators · 114th Congress
House
—
0 representatives
Supreme Court
5 R · 4 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
50 states
27 amendments in force
Unemployment
5.6%
Dec 2014 · $1 then ≈ $1.43 today
Public debt
$18.1T
as of Jan 2, 2015 · 4 armed conflicts
2015-01-04/executiveThe administration
President Barack Hussein Obama D
since Jan 20, 2013
Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. D
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan D
since Jan 21, 2009
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack D
since Jan 21, 2009
Attorney General Eric Holder D
since Feb 3, 2009
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper I
since Aug 9, 2010
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough D
since Jan 25, 2013
Secretary of State John Kerry D
since Feb 1, 2013
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel R
since Feb 27, 2013
Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew D
since Feb 28, 2013
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Owen Brennan
since Mar 8, 2013
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell D
since Apr 12, 2013
Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz D
since May 21, 2013
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman D
since Jun 21, 2013
Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker D
since Jun 26, 2013
Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx D
since Jul 2, 2013
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Gina McCarthy D
since Jul 18, 2013
Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez D
since Jul 23, 2013
Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power D
since Aug 5, 2013
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson D
since Dec 23, 2013
Administrator of the Small Business Administration Maria Contreras-Sweet D
since Apr 7, 2014
Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell D
since Jun 9, 2014
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Shaun Donovan D
since Jul 28, 2014
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro D
since Jul 28, 2014
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald R
since Jul 30, 2014
2015-01-04/congress114th Congress
Senate · 34 D · 30 R
Barbara Boxer (Democrat, CA)Dianne Feinstein (Democrat, CA)Michael F. Bennet (Democrat, CO)Richard Blumenthal (Democrat, CT)Christopher Murphy (Democrat, CT)Thomas R. Carper (Democrat, DE)Bill Nelson (Democrat, FL)Mazie K. Hirono (Democrat, HI)Joe Donnelly (Democrat, IN)Elizabeth Warren (Democrat, MA)Barbara A. Mikulski (Democrat, MD)Benjamin L. Cardin (Democrat, MD)Debbie Stabenow (Democrat, MI)Amy Klobuchar (Democrat, MN)Claire McCaskill (Democrat, MO)Jon Tester (Democrat, MT)Heidi Heitkamp (Democrat, ND)Robert Menendez (Democrat, NJ)Martin Heinrich (Democrat, NM)Harry Reid (Democrat, NV)Charles E. Schumer (Democrat, NY)Kirsten E. Gillibrand (Democrat, NY)Sherrod Brown (Democrat, OH)Ron Wyden (Democrat, OR)Robert P. Casey, Jr. (Democrat, PA)Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, RI)Tim Kaine (Democrat, VA)Patrick J. Leahy (Democrat, VT)Patty Murray (Democrat, WA)Maria Cantwell (Democrat, WA)Tammy Baldwin (Democrat, WI)Joe Manchin, III (Democrat, WV)Angus S. King, Jr. (Independent, ME)Bernard Sanders (Independent, VT)Lisa Murkowski (Republican, AK)Richard C. Shelby (Republican, AL)John Boozman (Republican, AR)John McCain (Republican, AZ)Jeff Flake (Republican, AZ)Marco Rubio (Republican, FL)Johnny Isakson (Republican, GA)Chuck Grassley (Republican, IA)Mike Crapo (Republican, ID)Mark Kirk (Republican, IL)Daniel Coats (Republican, IN)Jerry Moran (Republican, KS)Rand Paul (Republican, KY)David Vitter (Republican, LA)Roy Blunt (Republican, MO)Roger F. Wicker (Republican, MS)Richard Burr (Republican, NC)John Hoeven (Republican, ND)Deb Fischer (Republican, NE)Kelly Ayotte (Republican, NH)Dean Heller (Republican, NV)Rob Portman (Republican, OH)Patrick J. Toomey (Republican, PA)John Thune (Republican, SD)Bob Corker (Republican, TN)Ted Cruz (Republican, TX)Mike Lee (Republican, UT)Orrin G. Hatch (Republican, UT)Ron Johnson (Republican, WI)John Barrasso (Republican, WY)
House ·
2015-01-04/supreme-courtThe bench
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
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
John Glover Roberts, Jr. R
Chief Justice · appointed by George W. Bush · since Sep 29, 2005
Samuel A. Alito, Jr. R
Associate Justice · appointed by George W. Bush · since Jan 31, 2006
Sonia Sotomayor D
Associate Justice · appointed by Barack Obama · since Aug 6, 2009
Elena Kagan D
Associate Justice · appointed by Barack Obama · since Aug 6, 2010
2015-01-04/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
Iraq: insurgency and war against IS
since Aug 8, 2014 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat
Somalia: al-Shabaab
since Jan 1, 2015 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat
2015-01-04/weekWithin a week · Dec 28, 2014 – Jan 11, 2015
War + Somalia: al-Shabaab
Jan 1, 2015 · UCDP
War − Yemen: Houthis and AQAP
Jan 1, 2015 · UCDP
Agency + Defense Digital Service
Jan 1, 2015 · other
Order Imposing Additional Sanctions With Respect To North Korea
Jan 2, 2015 · EO 13687

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.