Norris Cochran

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Norris Cochran (2017)

Norris W. Cochran is an American civil servant.

Career

Norris W. Cochran earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara and then a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Texas at Austin .

In 1996, Cochran began working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Georgia . As a CDC employee, he sat on the House Committee on Appropriations in 2000 and 2001 . From 2001 to 2006 he worked in the Health Division in the Office of Management and Budget. On February 5, 2006, he joined the United States Department of Health (HHS) in the Senior Executive Service. As director in the Office of Budget , he was in charge of over 95 employees in four departments. His area of ​​responsibility included drawing up the budget, budget implementation and budget policy, as well as working with the operational and human resources departments of the ministry. As HHS Chief Performance Officer , he then supported the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources. Cochran currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget. Until Tom Price took office , he served as the United States' acting Secretary of Health from January 20 to February 10, 2017 .

On the day of the inauguration of the newly elected President Donald Trump , on instructions from the new administration, Cochran sent out an instruction in which he temporarily prohibited employees of the Department of Health from communicating with elected officials such as congressmen and governors about current regulations and draft bills. Democratic Party politicians saw it as an act of political censorship - the service instruction gave the impression that the Trump administration was trying to silence whistleblowers . As a result, Cochran felt compelled to confirm in a further communication to his employees their legal rights to communicate with congressmen.

Honors

  • 2010: Meritorious Presidential Rank Award

Web links

  • Norris Cochran on the hhs.gov website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Service instructions from January 20, 2017 (in English)
  2. ^ Democrats on Capitol Hill ask White House not to gag federal employees. Washington Post , January 26, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Cochran, Norris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cochran, Norris W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century