[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 19338]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         DISCHARGED NOMINATIONS

  The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions was 
discharged from further consideration of the following nomination and 
the nomination was confirmed:

       CHARLES S. CICCOLELLA, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE ASSISTANT 
     SECRETARY OF LABOR FOR VETERANS' EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING.
  The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged from further 
consideration of the following nominations and the nominations were 
confirmed:

       WILLIAM ROBERT TIMKEN, JR., OF OHIO, TO BE AMBASSADOR TO 
     THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.
       WILLIAM J. BURNS, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO BE 
     AMBASSADOR TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
       RICHARD HENRY JONES, OF NEBRASKA, TO BE AMBASSADOR TO 
     ISRAEL.
       FRANCIS JOSEPH RICCIARDONE, JR., OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, TO BE 
     AMBASSADOR TO THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT.

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