[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Pages 263-265]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations: 
470, 567, 569, 618, 619, 620, 622, 623, 625 through 633, 635, 636, 638, 
639, 640, 641, 642, 648, 649, 652 through 657, 659, 660, 661, and the 
nominations placed on the Secretary's desk, that the nominations be 
confirmed, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, the President 
be immediately notified of the Senate's action, and any statements be 
printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The nominations considered and confirmed en bloc are as follows:


                     small business administration

       Thomas M. Sullivan, of Massachusetts, to be Chief Counsel 
     for Advocacy, Small Business Administration.


                          department of state

       Christopher Bancroft Burnham, of Connecticut, to be Chief 
     Financial Officer, Department of State.
       Christopher Bancroft Burnham, of Connecticut, to be an 
     Assistant Secretary of State (Resource Management). (New 
     Position)


                       department of the interior

       Harold Craig Manson, of California, to be Assistant 
     Secretary for Fish and Wildlife.


                          department of energy

       Michael Smith, of Oklahoma, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
     Energy (Fossil Energy).
       Beverly Cook, of Idaho, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
     Energy (Environment, Safety and Health).


                       department of the interior

       Rebecca W. Watson, of Montana, to be an Assistant Secretary 
     of the Interior.

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       Jeffrey D. Jarrett, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the 
     Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.


                          department of state

       William R. Brownfield, 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 and Chile.
       John V. Hanford III, of Virginia, to be Ambassador at Large 
     for International Religious Freedom.
       Donna Jean Hrinak, of Virginia, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Ministery, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Federative Republic of Brazil.
       James David McGee, 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 Kingdom of Swaziland.
       Kenneth P. Moorefield, of Florida, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to serve 
     concurrently and without additional compensation as 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and 
     Principe.
       Kenneth P. Moorefield, of Florida, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Gabonese Republic.
       John D. Ong, of Ohio, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and 
     Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Norway.
       Earl Norfleet Phillips, Jr., of North Carolina, 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 St. 
     Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the 
     Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the 
     Grenadines.
       John Price, of Utah, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and 
     Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the 
     Republic of Mauritus, and to serve concurrently and without 
     additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and 
     Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the 
     Federal and Islamic Republic of the Comoros and Ambassador 
     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of 
     America to the Republic of Seychelles.
       Charles S. Shapiro, of Georgia, 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 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
       Arthur E. Dewey, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary 
     of State (Population, Refugees, and Migration).


           united states agency for international development

       Frederick W. Schieck, of Virginia, to be Deputy 
     Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
     Development.
       Adolfo A. Franco, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
     Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
     Development.
       Roger P. Winter, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
     Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
     Development.


                              peace corps

       Gaddi H. Vasquez, of California, to be Director of the 
     Peace Corps.
       Josephine K. Olsen, of Maryland, to be Deputy Director of 
     the Peace Corps.


                         department of justice

       David Preston York, of Alabama, to be United States 
     Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama for the term of 
     four years.
       Michael A. Battle, of New York, to be United States 
     Attorney for the Western District of New York for a term of 
     four years.
       Dwight MacKay, of Montana, to be United States Marshal for 
     the District of Montana for the term of four years.
       Mauricio J. Tamargo, of Florida, to be Chairman of the 
     Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States for 
     a term expiring September 30, 2003.


                       department of the treasury

       B. John Williams, Jr., of Virginia, to be Chief Counsel for 
     the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel 
     in the Department of the Treasury.


                department of health and human services

       Janet Hale, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
     Health and Human Services.
       Joan E. Ohl, of West Virginia, to be Commissioner on 
     Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health and Human 
     Services.


                       department of the Treasury

       Richard Clarida, of Connecticut, to be an Assistant 
     Secretary of the Treasury.


                     social security administration

       James B. Lockhart, III, of Connecticut, to be Deputy 
     Commissioner of Social Security for a term of six years.
       Harold Daub, of Nebraska, to be a Member of the Social 
     Security Advisory Board for the remainder of the term 
     expiring September 30, 2006.


                          department of energy

       Everet Beckner, of New Mexico, to be Deputy Administrator 
     for Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security 
     Administration.

               Nominations Placed on the Secretary's Desk


                            foreign service

       PN1245 Foreign Service nominations (127) beginning Patrick 
     C. Hughes, and ending Mason Yu, which nominations were 
     received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional 
     Record of November 27, 2001.
       PN1246 Foreign Service nominations (159) beginning Kathleen 
     T. Albert, FL, and ending Sunghwan Yi, which nominations were 
     received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional 
     Record of November 27, 2001.
       PN1141-1 Foreign Service nominations (149) beginning Shaun 
     Edward Donnelly, and ending Charles R. Wills, which 
     nominations were received by the Senate and appeared in the 
     Congressional Record of October 16, 2001.


                      NOMINATION OF MICHAEL SMITH

 Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, I am pleased to stand before the 
Senate today to wholeheartedly endorse the nomination of Mike Smith to 
be the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy.
  Mike is a red-white-and-blue American. He has an outstanding pedigree 
including the good common sense to come from the great State of 
Oklahoma. In fact, in his own words, ``I was born and raised in the 
middle of the Oklahoma City Field and attended the only high school in 
the Nation with a producing oil well in the middle of the front 
sidewalk.''
  Mike then proudly donned the crimson and cream of the University of 
Oklahoma for 7 years while earning his undergraduate and law degrees.
  Immediately thereafter, he patriotically donned Army green during the 
Vietnam war.
  As an attorney he has represented oil and gas workers, drilling 
contractors, service companies, exploration firms, independents, and, 
ultimately, larger operators.
  He knows business, too, having run a small, independent oil and gas 
company in central and western Oklahoma. He has served on the board of 
directors of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association and been 
its president.
  Moreover, Mike Smith brings to the Department of Energy an excellent 
background in government service. He served on the Oklahoma Energy 
Resources Board, a State agency, providing environmental cleanup and 
public education, voluntarily funded by our State's producers and 
royalty owners.
  Mike served under the sky blue and buckskin tan flag of Oklahoma when 
Gov. Frank Keating appointed him to be Oklahoma's Secretary of Energy. 
In that capacity Mike served my State as its official representative to 
the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, the Interstate Mining 
Compact Commission, the Southern States Energy Board, and the 
Governors' Ethanol Coalition.
  President Bush has assembled a banner group to assist him in running 
the Department of Energy, beginning with my friend and former 
colleague, Secretary Spence Abraham. Mike Smith is of the highest 
caliber and another true-blue selection by President Bush.
  I am proud of my fellow Oklahoman. I am excited to work closely with 
him to develop our national energy policy, particularly to ensure 
adequate supplies of affordable and clean energy.
  America's energy strengths derive from the rich natural bounty of our 
coal, our natural gas, and our oil, as well as from our blessed human 
ingenuity fostered by America's free market.
  I am proud to testify to my fellow Americans that America's energy 
strengths will be handled with flying colors by the ingenuity of 
Oklahoman Mike Smith.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, as the majority leader indicated earlier 
today, we have confirmed, I believe, 43 nominations including action on 
today's 2 judges. That is really a good piece of work for the week.

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