Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce; Federico Peña, former Secretary of Energy; Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Manuel Lujan Jr., former Secretary of the Interior; and Bill Richardson, former Secretary of Energy and Ambassador to the United Nations. Rosa Rios is the current US Treasurer, including the latest three, were Hispanic women. In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the first Supreme Court Associate Justice of Hispanic origin. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), founded in December 1976, and the Congressional Hispanic Conference (CHC), founded on March 19, 2003, are two organizations that promote policy of importance to Americans of Hispanic descent. They are divided into the two major American political parties: The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is composed entirely of Democratic representatives, whereas the Congressional Hispanic Conference is composed entirely of Republican representatives. Groups like the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute (USHLI) work to achieve the promises and principles of the United States by "promoting education, research, and leadership development, and empowering Hispanics and similarly disenfranchised groups by maximizing their civic awareness, engagement, and participation". Literature and journalism Writers and their works Julia Álvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) Rudolfo Anaya (Bless Me, Ultima and Heart of Aztlan) Marie Arana (American Chica, Bolívar: American Liberator and Silver, Sword, and Stone Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories) Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) Cecilia Domeyko (Sacrifice on the Border) Ernest Fenollosa (art historian, Masters of Ukiyoe) Rigoberto González (Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa) Oscar Hijuelos (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love) Jorge Majfud (Crisis and La frontera salvaje). Micol Ostow ("Mind Your Manners, Dick and Jane", "Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa") Benito Pastoriza Iyodo (A Matter of Men and September Elegies) Alberto Alvaro Rios (Capirotada, Elk Heads on the Wall and The Iguana Killer) Tomas Rivera (...And the Earth did Not Devour Him) Richard Rodríguez (Hunger of Memory) George Santayana (novelist and philosopher: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it") Sergio Troncoso (From This Wicked Patch of Dust and The Last Tortilla and Other Stories) Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (Haters) Victor Villaseñor (Rain of Gold) Oscar Zeta Acosta (The Revolt of the Cockroach People) Journalists Cecilia Vega American journalist, currently serving as chief White House correspondent for ABC News. Jorge Ramos has won eight Emmy Awards and the Maria Moors Cabot Award for