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The United States on October 22, 2016

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

54 R · 46 D

100 senators · 114th Congress

House

246 R · 186 D

432 representatives

Supreme Court

4 R · 4 D

8 justices by appointing party

Union

50 states

27 amendments in force

Unemployment

Sep 2016 · $1 then ≈ $1.40 today

Public debt

$19.8T

as of Oct 21, 2016 · 6 armed conflicts

2016-10-22/executiveThe administration

President Barack Hussein Obama D

since Jan 20, 2013

Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. D

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack D

since Jan 21, 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 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

Secretary of Education John King Jr. D

since Jan 4, 2015

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter D

since Feb 17, 2015

Attorney General Loretta Lynch D

since Apr 27, 2015

2016-10-22/congress114th Congress

Senate · 54 R · 46 D

House · 246 R · 186 D

2016-10-22/supreme-courtThe bench

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

2016-10-22/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

Afghanistan: Islamic State

since Mar 3, 2015 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

Libya: Islamic State

since Jan 1, 2016 · U.S. supporting a government with troops in combat

2016-10-22/weekWithin a week · Oct 15, 2016 – Oct 29, 2016

Nothing recorded within a week of this date.

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.