# Bernie Sanders's place in a Hillary Clinton presidency? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 17, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-sanderss-place-in-a-hillary-clinton-presidency/734945 "2015-10-17T23:12:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-sanderss-place-in-a-hillary-clinton-presidency/734945/21 "2015-10-19T16:23:25Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > I don’t think that’s a rule, and I’m sure if you sum it up the head of the EPA has mostly been a lawyer or business major. Going back to Clinton, the college majors of the EPA administrators: (Obama) Gina McCarthy - BA Social Anthropology/MS Environmental Health Engineering and Planning and Policy (Obama) Lisa P. Jackson - BS/MS chemical engineering (Bush) Stephen L. Johnson - BA Biology/ MS Pathology (Bush) Mike Leavitt - BA Business (Bush) Christine Todd Whitman - BA government (Clinton) Carol Browner - BA English/JD Seems like a mix. No comment on how good or bad they’ve done. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-sanderss-place-in-a-hillary-clinton-presidency/734945/22 "2015-10-19T16:50:55Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > He’ll be the friendly voice in the Senate that will hold her feet to the fire if she governs like a Republican. QFT. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-sanderss-place-in-a-hillary-clinton-presidency/734945/23 "2015-10-19T17:36:50Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > Going back to Clinton, the college majors of the EPA administrators: > > (Obama) Gina McCarthy - BA Social Anthropology/MS Environmental Health Engineering and Planning and Policy > > (Obama) Lisa P. Jackson - BS/MS chemical engineering > > (Bush) Stephen L. Johnson - BA Biology/ MS Pathology > > (Bush) Mike Leavitt - BA Business > > (Bush) Christine Todd Whitman - BA government > > (Clinton) Carol Browner - BA English/JD > > Seems like a mix. No comment on how good or bad they’ve done. Not so much a mix as the last few have had science backgrounds. Hopefully that will become an enduring custom but my scan of the earlier ones seemed to not include any scientists. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-sanderss-place-in-a-hillary-clinton-presidency/734945/24 "2015-10-19T18:54:21Z")
In the Senate, where he can continue his flow of accomplishments unabated. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-sanderss-place-in-a-hillary-clinton-presidency/734945/25 "2015-10-19T22:46:19Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > I don’t think that’s a rule, and I’m sure if you sum it up the head of the EPA has mostly been a lawyer or business major. Sorry, “requires” was the wrong word, “should have in order to effectively safeguard our resources” is what I meant, but thank you and **yellowjacketcoder** both. I’m still thinking Labor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bernie-sanderss-place-in-a-hillary-clinton-presidency/734945.md?page=1)