Originally posted by the Voice of America. Voice of America content is produced by the Voice of America, a United States federal government-sponsored entity, and is in the public domain. Biden to Name Marcia Fudge for Housing, Tom Vilsack for Agriculture VOA News U.S. news outlets say President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Democratic Representative Marcia Fudge to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Biden will also nominate Tom Vilsack to lead the Agriculture Department, a job he held for eight years under former President Barack Obama, for whom Biden served as vice president. Vilsack is also a former governor of the midwestern state of Iowa, one of the nation's crucial agricultural states. .