[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 178 (Wednesday, December 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8559-S8560]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations en 
bloc: Calendar Nos. 415 through 420, 422, and 423.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the nominations en bloc.
  The legislative clerk read the nominations of Catherine Ebert-Gray, 
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 Independent State of Papua New 
Guinea, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation 
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
America to the Solomon Islands and Ambassador Extraordinary and 
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of 
Vanuatu; G. Kathleen Hill, of Colorado, 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 
Malta; John D. Feeley, of the District of Columbia, a Career

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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 Panama; Eric Seth Rubin, of New York, 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 Bulgaria; Kyle R. Scott, of 
Arizona, 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 Serbia; Todd C. 
Chapman, of Texas, 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 
Ecuador; Jean Elizabeth Manes, of Florida, 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 El Salvador; and Linda Swartz Taglialatela, of New 
York, a Career Member of the Senior Executive Service, to be Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to 
Barbados, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation 
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
America to the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua 
and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent 
and the Grenadines.
  Thereupon, the Senate proceeded to consider the nominations en bloc.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I know of no further debate on the 
nominations.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the Ebert-Gray, Hill, Feeley, Rubin, Scott, Chapman, Manes, 
and Taglialatela nominations en bloc?
  The nominations were confirmed en bloc.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the motion 
to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no 
intervening action or debate; that no further motions be in order to 
any of the nominations; that any statements related to the nominations 
be printed in the Record; that the President be immediately notified of 
the Senate's action and the Senate then resume legislative session.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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