[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 154 (Thursday, November 6, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S11903]
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                             CONFIRMATIONS

  Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate November 6, 1997:


                          department of labor

       Patricia Watkins Lattimore, of the District of Columbia, to 
     be an Assistant Secretary of Labor.


                department of health and human services

       Jeanette C. Takamura, of Hawaii, to be Assistant Secretary 
     for Aging, Department of Health and Human Services.


                          department of labor

       Susan Robinson King, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
     Assistant Secretary of Labor.


                         department of commerce

       F. Amanda DeBusk, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary 
     of Commerce.
       R. Roger Majak, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary 
     of Commerce.
       David L. Aaron, of New York, to be Under Secretary of 
     Commerce for International Trade.


                          department of state

       Julia Taft, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant 
     Secretary of State.
       Phyllis E. Oakley, of Louisiana, to be an Assistant 
     Secretary of State.
       Mary Mel French, of the District of Columbia, to be Chief 
     of Protocol, and to have the rank of Ambassador during her 
     tenure of service.
       Lange Schermerhorn, of New Jersey, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the Republic of Djibouti.
       Brenda Schoonover, of Maryland, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the Republic of Togo.
       Kathryn Walt Hall, of Texas, to be Ambassador Extraordinary 
     and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the 
     Republic of Austria.
       Edward M. Gabriel, of the District of Columbia, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Kingdom of Morocco.
       Joseph A. Presel, of Rhode Island, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Republic of Uzbekistan.
       Richard Frank Celeste, of Ohio, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to India.
       Shaun Edward Donnelly, of Indiana, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri 
     Lanka, and to serve concurrently and without additional 
     compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 
     of the United States of America to the Republic of Maldives.
       Edward S. Walker, Jr., of Maryland, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to Israel.
       Stanley Tuemler Escudero, of Florida, a Career Member of 
     the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to 
     be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Republic of Azerbaijan.
       Daniel Fried, of the District of Columbia, a Career Member 
     of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Republic of Poland.
       James Carew Rosapepe, of Maryland, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to Romania.
       Peter Francis Tufo, of New York, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the Republic of Hungary.
       Kathryn Linda Haycock Proffitt, of Arizona, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Republic of Malta.
       William H. Twaddell, of Rhode Island, a Career Member of 
     the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to 
     be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
       Steven J. Green, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary 
     and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the 
     Republic of Singapore.
       Daniel Charles Kurtzer, of Maryland, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Arab Republic of Egypt.
       Steven Karl Pifer, of California, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to Ukraine.
       Cameron R. Hume, of New York, a Career Member of the Senior 
     Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria.
       Gerald S. McGowan, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the Republic of Portugal.
       Lyndon Lowell Olson, Jr., of Texas, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to Sweden.
       Christopher C. Ashby, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay.
       James A. Larocco, of Virginia, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the State of Kuwait.
       David B. Hermelin, of Michigan, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to Norway.
       George Edward Moose, of Maryland, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be 
     Representative of the United States of America to the 
     European Office of the United Nations, with the rank of 
     Ambassador.
       Victor Marrero, of New York, to be the Permanent 
     Representative of the United States to the Organization of 
     American States, with the rank of Ambassador.
       Alexander R. Vershbow, of the District of Columbia, a 
     Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of 
     Minister-Counselor, to be United States Permanent 
     Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty 
     Organization, with the rank and status of Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
       B. Lynn Pascoe, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior 
     Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, for the rank of 
     Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special Negotiator 
     for Nagorno-Karabakh.
       David Timothy Johnson, of Georgia, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, for the rank of 
     Ambassador during his tenure of service as Head of the United 
     States Delegation to the Organization for Security and 
     Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
       Thomas J. Miller, of Virginia, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, for the 
     rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special 
     Coordinator for Cyprus.
       Amy L. Bondurant, of the District of Columbia, to be 
     Representative of the United States of America to the 
     Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with 
     the rank of Ambassador.

       The above nominations were approved subject to the 
     nominees' commitment to respond to requests to appear and 
     testify before any duly constituted committee of the Senate.


                             the judiciary

       Ronald Lee Gilman, of Tennessee, to be United States 
     Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit.