Who should Barack Obama appoint as Secretary of Transportation?

• Earl Blumenauer, Democratic representative from Oregon

• Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for the Bay Area

• Ed Rendell, governor of Pennsylvania

• James Oberstar, Democratic representative from Minnesota and chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

• Peter DeFazio, Democratic representative from Oregon and chair of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit

• Janette Sadik-Kahn, commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation

• Jane Garvey, former head of Federal Aviation Administration

• Mortimer Downey, deputy transportation secretary under President Clinton