[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 118 (Wednesday, September 20, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S9853]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
immediately proceed to executive session to consider the following 
nominations on today's Executive Calendar: Calendar No. 893; provided 
further that the Foreign Relations Committee be discharged from 
consideration of the following nominations and that the Senate proceed 
to those en bloc: Senator Coleman (PN2044) and Senator Boxer (PN2043).
  I further ask unanimous consent that the nominations be confirmed en 
bloc, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, the President 
be immediately notified of the Senate's action, and the Senate then 
return to legislative session.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The nominations were considered and confirmed, as follows:


                          department of state

       Cindy Lou Courville, of Virginia, to be Representative of 
     the United States of America to the African Union, with the 
     rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.


                             united nations

       Norman B. Coleman, of Minnesota, to be a Representative of 
     the United States of America to the Sixty-first Session of 
     the General Assembly of the United Nations.
       Barbara Boxer, of California, to be a Representative of the 
     United States of America to the Sixty-first Session of the 
     General Assembly of the United Nations.

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