[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 66 (Thursday, May 21, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S5358]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CONFIRMATIONS

  Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate May 21, 1998:


                         Department of Defense

       David R. Oliver, of Idaho, to be Deputy Under Secretary of 
     Defense for Acquisition and Technology.


        National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

       Jeanne Hurley Simon, of Illinois, to be a Member of the 
     National Commission on Libraries and Information Science for 
     a term expiring July 19, 2002.


           National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

       William James Ivey, of Tennessee, to be Chairperson of the 
     National Endowment for the Arts for a term of four years.


            Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

       Robert H. Beatty, Jr., of West Virginia, to be a Member of 
     the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission for a 
     term expiring August 30, 2004.


             Corporation for National and Community Service

       Thomas Ehrlich, of California, to be a Member of the Board 
     of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community 
     Service for a term of five years.
       Dorothy A. Johnson, of Michigan, to be a Member of the 
     Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and 
     Community Service for a term of five years.


                     Small Business Administration

       Fred P. Hochberg, of New York, to be Deputy Administrator 
     of the Small Business Administration.


                          Department of State

       William Joseph Burns, of Pennsylvania, 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 Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
       Ryan Clark Crocker, of Washington, 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 Syrian Arab Republic.

  (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.)


                            Foreign Service

       Foreign Service nominations beginning Alexander Almasov, 
     and ending James Hammond Williams, which nominations were 
     received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional 
     Record on March 26, 1998.
       Foreign Service nominations beginning Joan E. La Rosa, and 
     ending Morton J. Holbrook, III, which nominations were 
     received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional 
     Record on March 26, 1998.
       Foreign Service nominations beginning Michael Farbman, and 
     ending Mary C. Pendleton, which nominations were received by 
     the Senate and appeared in the Congressional Record on April 
     22, 1998.