[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 98 (Monday, July 16, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7663-S7665]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CONFIRMATION OF NOMINEES

  Mr. KYL. We started this session of Congress, I think, on a fairly 
high note of bipartisanship. While there have been some recent events 
that may have detracted from that, I think most of us would like to 
proceed with as much bipartisanship as possible. Part of this,

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of course, concerns relationships between the Congress and the 
President.
  Since the majority in the Senate and the President are of different 
parties, that may be a little more difficult, but I have a suggestion 
today which I hope will enable us to move in that direction.
  The President has a number of nominees, executive branch nominees, 
there are a few legislative branch nominees that require our actions, 
and then there are some judicial nominees. I hope in a real spirit of 
bipartisanship we can get those nominees cleared; that is to say, the 
Senate can confirm the President's nominations and the personnel that 
he needs in the executive branch to get his work done, and that we can 
confirm the judges the courts need. These are people who need to be put 
into place so our country can move forward for all of the American 
people.
  Up until last week, unfortunately, the Senate had been acting at a 
relatively slow pace. I might also add the change from the majority to 
the minority, and vice verse, undoubtedly complicated this, but we were 
not making very good progress.
  Last week, I note that 54 nominees were confirmed by the Senate. In 
fact, 36 were confirmed just last Thursday. So we are finally beginning 
to make some progress. I urge my colleagues to continue this progress 
because, by my count, there are 93 executive branch nominees pending as 
of today. Only 26 have had hearings. But as we know, it does not take 
too much for the committee work to follow shortly after a hearing so 
the nominees can actually come to the Senate for full debate and 
confirmation by the full Senate.
  As of today, according to the administration's figures, approximately 
347 nominees have come to the Senate, and only 187 have been confirmed. 
So we still have a fair amount of work to do.
  In terms of judicial nominees, my understanding is that there are 29 
nominations pending, 3 of which have had hearings. Of those, 20 are 
circuit court nominees, 9 are district court nominees. The bottom line 
with regard to the courts is that as of today, no circuit or district 
court judges have been confirmed this year. We are, of course, now past 
the midway point of this year.
  We are going to have to get going. Again, I do not want to point any 
fingers in the spirit of bipartisanship which I am invoking here today. 
I am hoping Republicans and Democrats in the Senate and the 
administration can work very closely together.
  What I would like to do, and I will do at the end of my remarks, is 
submit for the Record the names of the nominees who are pending. I was 
going to read the names of the people who are currently pending, but I 
do not need to do that. I will submit those for the Record. But I would 
note some of these have been pending going back to the month of April. 
Clearly the Senate can act on those nominees who have been before us 
for a long period of time, and we should expedite those who have come 
before us, even fairly recently. It should be our goal that by the time 
we conclude our work in July and return to our States for the August 
recess, that all of the nominees who have come to the Senate, except 
maybe in the last couple of days before that period of time, will have 
been cleared; that is to say, they will have had their hearings, come 
out of committee, and been acted upon by the full Senate. Very few of 
them are controversial, as I go down the list.

  I do note in a couple of cases nominees are being held up by 
Senators--actually in four or five cases. A couple of those are being 
held up by Republicans, and a few more are being held up by Democrats. 
I am going to urge my Republican colleagues to cooperate so the 
concerns they have expressed can be dealt with and the nominees can 
move forward. I hope my Democratic colleagues will do the same on their 
side of the aisle. I think it is important that while a Member of the 
Senate may put a technical hold on a nomination, we all appreciate all 
that means is that they have requested to be notified if the majority 
leader is going to call that nominee up for a full Senate consideration 
so that Senator will then have an opportunity to object. Obviously, we 
do not want to put Members in that position, but I do think it is 
important for the full Senate to be able to work its will on these 
nominees. That is why I am going to ask both Republicans and Democrats, 
where they have a problem with somebody, to try to work that out with 
the administration so we can proceed.
  Finally, last week I worked with the distinguished majority leader 
and the assistant majority leader in ensuring we could both bring the 
appropriations bills that we have to deal with to the Senate floor and 
to get these nominees done at the same time. There is nothing to 
prevent us from bringing an appropriations bill to the floor and then 
toward the end of the day, for those nominees that do not require 
debate and rollcall vote, having them considered in the wrap-up.
  I will continue to do that because it is my expectation that we will 
not have to use the rules of parliamentary procedure that we all have 
available to us to hold up business of the Senate in order to get these 
nominees done since they are the top priority; that we can actually do 
both at the same time.
  That is my request of the majority leader and of the assistant 
majority leader--to continue to work in that spirit moving forward both 
with the appropriations bill and with the nominees. I will have more to 
say about this later.
  I ask unanimous consent that the names of the nominees who are 
currently pending be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

           Bush Administration Nominees Pending Senate Action


                              Agriculture

       Thomas C. Dorr, Undersecretary for Rural Development.
       Hilda Gay Legg, Administrator, Rural Utilities Services.
       Mark Edward Rey, Undersecretary for Natural Resources and 
     Environment.


                                Commerce

       Samuel W. Bodman, Deputy Secretary of Commerce.
       David Sampson, Assistant Secretary for Economic 
     Development.
       Michael J. Garcia, Assistant Secretary for Export 
     Enforcement.
       William Henry Lash III, Assistant Secretary for Market 
     Access and Compliance.
       James Edward Rogan, Undersecretary for Intellectual 
     Property and Director of the United States Patent and 
     Trademark Office.


                                Defense

       Jack Dyer Crouch II, Assistant Secretary for International 
     Security.
       Stephen A. Cambone, Principal Deputy Undersecretary for 
     Policy.
       Susan Morrisey Linvingstone, Undersecretary of the Navy.
       Alberto Jose Mora, General Counsel, Navy.
       Michael Parker, Assistant Secretary for Civil Works, Army.
       John Stenbit, Assistant Secretary for Command, Control, 
     Communications & Intelligence.
       Ronald M. Sega, Director, Defense Research and Engineering.
       Joseph E. Schmitz, Inspector General.
       Michael L. Dominguez, Assistant Secretary (Air Force) for 
     Manpower, Reserve Affairs.
       Nelson F. Gibbs, Assistant Secretary (Air Force) for 
     Installations & Environment.
       H.T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary (Navy) for Installations 
     & Environment.
       Mario P. Fiori, Assistant Secretary (Army) for 
     Installations & Environment.


                               Education

       Carol D'Amico, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult 
     Education.
       Brian Jones, General Counsel.
       Laurie Rich, Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental and 
     Interagency Affairs.
       Robert Pasternack, Assistant Secretary for Special 
     Education and Rehabilitative Services.
       Joanne M. Wilson, Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services 
     Administration.


                                 Energy

       Dan R. Brouillette, Assistant Secretary for Congressional 
     and Intergovernmental Affairs.
       Theresa Alvillar-Speake, Director, of Minority Economic 
     Impact.


                       health and human services

       Wade F. Horn, Assistant Secretary for Family Support.
        Kevin Keane, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.
       Janet Hale, Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget.
       Alex Azar, III, General Counsel.
       Janet Rehnquist, Inspector General.
       Josefina Carbonell,Assistant Secretary for Aging.
       Joan E. Ohl, Commissioner, Administration for Children, 
     Youth and Families.


                     housing and urban development

       Michael Minoru Fawn Liu, Assistant Secretary for Public and 
     Indian Housing.
       Melody H. Fennel, Assistant Secretary for Congressional and 
     Intergovernmental Affairs.

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                                Justice

       Ralph F. Boyd, Jr., Assistant Attorney General for Civil 
     Rights.
       Deborah J. Daniels, Assistant Attorney General for the 
     Office of Justice.
       Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General for 
     Environment & Natural Resources.
       Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General for the 
     Civil Division.
       Eileen J. O'Connor, Assistant Attorney General for Tax 
     Division.
       Sarah V. Hart, Director, National Institute of Justice.
       Richard R. Nedelkoff, Director of the Bureau of Justice 
     Assistance.
       J. Robert Flores, Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice 
     and Delinquency Prevention.
       James W. Ziglar, Commissioner, Immigration and 
     Naturalization Service.
       John W. Gillis, Director, Office for Victims of Crime.
       Asa Hutchinson, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Agency.
       Sharee M. Freeman, Director, Community Relations Service.
       Mauricio J. Tamargo, Chairman, Foreign Claims Settlement 
     Commission.


                                 labor

       Eugene Scalia, Solicitor of Labor.
       John Lester Henshaw, Assistant Secretary, Occupational 
     Safety and Health.
       Emily Stover DeRocco, Assistant Secretary for Employment 
     Training Administration.


                                 state

       John D. Negroponte, Representative to the United Nations.
       Otto J. Reich, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere 
     Affairs.
       Charlotte L. Beers, Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy.
       Clark Kevin Ervin, Inspector General.
       Dennis L. Schornack, Commissioner, International Joint 
     Commission.
       William A. Eaton, Assistant Secretary for Administration.


                             Transportation

       Allan Rutter, Administrator, Federal Railroad 
     Administration.
       Kirk Van Tine, General Counsel.
       Ellen G. Engleman, Administrator, Research and Special 
     Programs.
       Jeffrey William Runge, Administrator, National Highway 
     Traffic Safety Administration.


                                Treasury

       Michele Davis, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.
       Kenneth Dam, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
       Peter R. Fisher, Undersecretary for Domestic Finance.
       Jimmy Gurule, Undersecretary for Enforcement.
       Rosario Marin, Treasurer of the United States.
       Brian Carlton Roseboro, Assistant for Financial Markets.
       Henrietta Holsman Fore, Director, U.S. Mint.
       Robert C. Bonner, Commissioner of Customs.
       Sheila C. Bair, Assistant Secretary for Financial 
     Institutions.


                            Veterans Affairs

       Gordon H. Mansfield, Assistant Secretary for Congressional 
     Affairs.
       Claude Kickligher, Assistant Secretary for Policy and 
     Planning.


                            Executive Branch

       John D. Graham, Administrator of the Office of Information 
     and Regulatory Affairs.
       Jon M. Huntsman, Deputy USTR.
       Mark B. McClellan, Member, Council of Economic Advisors.
       Allen Frederick Johnson, Chief Agricultural Negotiator, 
     USTR.
       John Walters, Director, Office of Drug Control Policy.


                                Agencies

       Robert E. Fabricant, General Counsel, EPA.
       Hector Baretto, Administrator, Small Business 
     Administration.
       Roger Walton Ferguson, Governor, Federal Reserve System.
       Jeffrey R. Holmstead, Assistant Administrator for Air and 
     Radiation, EPA.
       George Tracey Megan, III, Assistant Administrator for 
     Water, EPA.
       Eduardo Aguirre, Jr., First Vice President & Vice Chair, 
     Export-Import Administration.
       Cari Dominguez, Chairwoman, Equal Employment Opportunity 
     Commission.
       Harvey L. Pitt, Chairman, Securities and Exchange 
     Commission.
       Ross J. Connelly, Executive Vice President, OPIC.
       Carole L. Brookins, US Executive Director of the 
     International Bank for Reconstruction.
       Judith Elizabeth Ayres, Assistant Administrator for 
     International Activities.
       Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General, GSA.
       Marion Blakey, Chairman, National Transportation Safety 
     Board.
       John Arthur Hammerschmidt, Member, National Transportation 
     Safety Board.
       Donald Schregardus, Assistant Administrator for 
     Enforcement.


                               Judiciary

       John G. Roberts, Jr., U.S. Circuit Court, District of 
     Columbia.
       Miguel A. Estrada, U.S. Circuit Court, District of 
     Columbia.
       Edith Brown Clement, U.S. Circuit Court, Fifth Circuit.
       Priscilla Richman Owen, U.S. Circuit Court, Fifth Circuit.
       Dennis W. Shedd, U.S. Circuit Court, Fourth Circuit.
       Roger L. Gregory, U.S. Circuit Court, Fourth Circuit.
       Terrence W. Boyle, U.S. Circuit Court, Fourth Circuit.
       Barrington D. Parker, U.S. Circuit Court, Second Circuit.
       Deborah L. Cook, U.S. Circuit Court, Sixth Circuit.
       Jeffrey S. Sutton, U.S. Circuit Court, Sixth Circuit.
       Michael E. McConnell, U.S. Circuit Court, Tenth Circuit.
       Sharon Prost, U.S. Circuit Court, Federal Circuit.
       Lavenski R. Smith, U.S. Circuit Court, Eighth Circuit.
       William J. Riley, U.S. Circuit Court, Eighth Circuit.
       Charles W. Pickering, Sr., U.S. Circuit Court, Fifth 
     Circuit.
       Timothy M. Tymkovich, U.S. Circuit Court, Tenth Circuit.
       Harris L. Hartz, U.S. Circuit Court, Tenth Circuit.
       Carolyn B. Kuhl, U.S. Circuit Court, Ninth Circuit.
       Richard R. Clifton, U.S. Circuit Court, Ninth Circuit.
       Michael J. Melloy, U.S. Circuit Court, Eighth Circuit.
       Richard F. Cebull, U.S. District Court, District of 
     Montana.
       Sam E. Haddon, U.S. District Court, District of Montana.
       Terry L. Wooten, U.S. District Court, District of South 
     Carolina.
       Laurie Smith Camp, U.S. District Court, District of 
     Nebraska.
       Paul G. Cassell, U.S. District Court, District of Utah.
       John D. Bates, U.S. District Court, District of the 
     District of Columbia.
       Reggie B. Walton, U.S. District Court, District of the 
     District of Columbia.
       Michael P. Mills, U.S. District Court, Northern District of 
     Mississippi.
       James E. Gritzner, U.S. District Court, Southern District 
     of Iowa.

  Mr. KYL. Mr. President, I will continue to work with the majority and 
minority leaders to ensure that we can consider these nominees.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington is recognized.
  Ms. CANTWELL. Thank you, Mr. President.

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