US President George W. Bush has completed decisions on the future of all his Cabinet members, asking four secretaries to remain for his second term on Thursday.

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao have agreed to serve in Bush's new Cabinet, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.

Nine of the 15 Cabinet members during Bush's first term have resigned in a post-election shuffle. Bush has asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Treasury Secretary John Snow to stay, and both have agreed.

Bush has nominated seven replacements for those resigned in his cabinet. The latest was the choice Thursday of Jim Nicholson, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and current US ambassador to the Vatican, as the next secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department.

Bush still needs to fill the top jobs at the Energy and Health and Human Services departments.

(Xinhua News Agency December 10, 2004)