[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 22907]
[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 and that the Environment Committee be 
discharged from further consideration of the following nominations: Ann 
Pope to be Federal Cochairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission; 
Richard Peltz to be alternative Federal Cochairman of the Appalachian 
Regional Commission; that the Senate proceed to the consideration of 
the nominees; the nominees be confirmed; the motions to reconsider be 
laid on the table, any statements thereon be printed at the appropriate 
place in the Record as if read, and that the President be immediately 
notified of the Senate's action.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The nominations were considered and confirmed, as follows:
       Anne B. Pope, of Tennessee, to be Federal Cochairman of the 
     Appalachian Regional Commission.
       Richard J. Peltz, of Pennsylvania, to be Alternative 
     Federal Cochairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission.

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