[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8123]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CONFIRMATIONS

  Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate Friday, May 12, 2006:


                    department of homeland security

       Uttam Dhillon, of California, to be Director of the Office 
     of Counternarcotics Enforcement, Department of Homeland 
     Security.
       The above nomination was approved subject to the nominee's 
     commitment to respond to requests to appear and testify 
     before any duly constituted committee of the Senate.


                       department of agriculture

       Marc L. Kesselman, of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of 
     the Department of Agriculture.
       Linda Avery Strachan, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
     Secretary of Agriculture.
       Boyd Kevin Rutherford, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
     Secretary of Agriculture.
       Gale A. Buchanan, of Georgia, to be Under Secretary of 
     Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics.


                         Department of Justice

       Timothy Anthony Junker, of Iowa, to be United States 
     Marshall for the Northern District of Iowa for the term of 4 
     years.
       Patrick Carroll Smith, Sr., of Maryland, to be United 
     States Marshal for the Western District of North Carolina for 
     the term of 4 years.