[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 106 (Friday, July 31, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S9670]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CONFIRMATIONS

  Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate July 31, 1998:


                         Department of Commerce

       Deborah K. Kilmer, of Idaho, to be an Assistant Secretary 
     of Commerce.


                   Executive Office of the President

       Neal F. Lane, of Oklahoma, to be Director of the Office of 
     Science and Technology Policy.


                      Department of Transportation

       Clyde J. Hart, Jr., of New Jersey, to be Administrator of 
     the Maritime Administration, vice Albert J. Herberger, 
     resigned.


                       Department of the Treasury

       Raymond W. Kelly, of New York, to be Commissioner of 
     Customs.
       James E. Johnson, of New Jersey, to be Under Secretary of 
     the Treasury for Enforcement.
       Elizabeth Bresee, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary 
     of the Treasury.


                   Executive Office of the President

       Jacob Joseph Lew, of New York, to be Director of the Office 
     of Management and Budget.


                          Department of State

       Richard Nelson Swett, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to Denmark.
       Arthur Louis Schechter, of Texas, to be Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
       James Howard Holmes, 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 Republic of Latvia.
       John Bruce Craig, 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 Sultanate of Oman.
       David Michael Satterfield, of Virginia, 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 Lebanon.
       Charles F. Kartman, 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 
     Envoy for the Korean Peace Talks.
       William B. Milam, of California, 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 Islamic Republic of Pakistan.


                          Department of Energy

       Bill Richardson, of New Mexico, to be Secretary of Energy.

       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.


                  Commodity Futures Trading Commission

       Barbara Pedersen Holum, of Maryland, to be a Commissioner 
     of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the term 
     expiring April 13, 2002.
       James E. Newsome, of Mississippi, to be a Commissioner of 
     the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the term 
     expiring June 19, 2001.


                       Department of Agriculture

       Keith C. Kelly, of Arizona, to be a Member of the Board of 
     Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation.
       Charles R. Rawls, of North Carolina, to be General Counsel 
     of the Department of Agriculture.


                             The Judiciary

       John D. Kelly, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit 
     Judge for the Eighth Circuit.
       Dan A. Polster, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge 
     for the Northern District of Ohio.
       Robert G. James, of Louisiana, to be United States District 
     Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, vice John M. 
     Shaw, retired.
       Ralph E. Tyson, of Louisiana, to be United States District 
     Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana.
       Raner Christercunean Collins, of Arizona, to be United 
     States District Judge for the District of Arizona.
       Kim Mc Lean Wardlaw, of California, to be United States 
     Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.


                         Department of Justice

       Howard Hikaru Tagomori, of Hawaii, to be United States 
     Marshal for the District of Hawaii for the term of four 
     years.
       Paul M. Warner, of Utah, to be United States Attorney for 
     the District of Utah for the term of four years.


                            Foreign Service

       Foreign Service nominations beginning Homi Jamshed, and 
     ending Joseph E. Zadrozny, Jr., which nominations were 
     received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional 
     Record on June 18, 1998.
       Foreign Service nominations beginning Robert James Bigart, 
     Jr., and ending Carol J. Urban, which nominations were 
     received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional 
     Record on July 15, 1998.

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