[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 150 (Monday, September 22, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S9169]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         DISCHARGED NOMINATIONS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to executive session and that the Senate Foreign Relations 
Committee be discharged from the following, and the Senate proceed to 
their consideration, en bloc: PN2053, Senator Bill Nelson, to be a 
Representative of the United States to the 63rd Session of the General 
Assembly of the United Nations, and PN2054, Senator Bob Corker of 
Tennessee, to be a Representative of the United States to the 63rd 
Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations; that the 
nominations be confirmed and the motions to reconsider be laid upon the 
table, en bloc; that the President be immediately notified of the 
Senate's action; that no other motion be in order; and that the Senate 
resume legislative session.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  The nominations considered and confirmed are as follows:

                    UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

       BILL NELSON, of Florida, to be a Representative of the 
     United States of America to the Sixty-third Session of the 
     General Assembly of the United Nations.
       BOB CORKER, of Tennessee, to be a Representative of the 
     United States of America to the Sixty-third Session of the 
     General Assembly of the United Nations.

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