[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16261]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              NOMINATIONS

  Executive nominations received by the Senate July 18, 2005:


                       Department of the Interior

       H. DALE HALL, OF NEW MEXICO, TO BE DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED 
     STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, VICE STEVEN A. WILLIAMS, 
     RESIGNED.


                Department of Health and Human Services

       VINCENT J. VENTIMIGLIA, JR., OF MARYLAND, TO BE AN 
     ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, VICE 
     JENNIFER YOUNG.


           National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

       BRUCE COLE, OF INDIANA, TO BE CHAIRPERSON OF THE NATIONAL 
     ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES FOR A TERM OF FOUR YEARS. 
     (Reappointment)


                              In the Army

       THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED 
     STATES ARMY TO THE GRADE INDICATED UNDER TITLE 10, U.S.C., 
     SECTION 624:

                        To be brigadier general

COL. DOUGLAS L. CARVER, 0000


                              In the Navy

       THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED 
     STATES NAVY TO THE GRADE INDICATED WHILE ASSIGNED TO A 
     POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, 
     U.S.C., SECTION 601:

                           To be vice admiral

VICE ADM. DAVID C. NICHOLS, JR., 0000

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