[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 183 (Monday, December 8, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S10819]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         DISCHARGED NOMINATIONS

  The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs was 
discharged from further consideration of the following nomination and 
the nomination was referred sequentially to the Committee on Homeland 
Security and Governmental Affairs pursuant to an order of 01/09/2007:

       NEIL M. BAROFSKY, OF NEW YORK, TO BE SPECIAL INSPECTOR 
     GENERAL FOR THE TROUBLED ASSET RELIEF PROGRAM.

  The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
was discharged from further consideration of the following nomination 
and the nomination was confirmed:

       NEIL M. BAROFSKY, OF NEW YORK, TO BE SPECIAL INSPECTOR 
     GENERAL FOR THE TROUBLED ASSET RELIEF PROGRAM.

  The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged from further 
consideration of the following nomination and the nomination was 
confirmed:

       FOREIGN SERVICE NOMINATION OF DAVID J. STRAWMAN, TO BE 
     CAREER MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF 
     COUNSELOR, AND CONSULAR OFFICER AND SECRETARY IN THE 
     DIPLOMATIC SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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