[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8143]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         DISCHARGED NOMINATION

  The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged from further 
consideration of the following nomination and the nomination was 
confirmed:

       WILLIAM J. BURNS, OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, A CAREER 
     MEMBER OF THE SENIOR FOREIGN SERVICE, CLASS OF CAREER 
     MINISTER, TO BE AN UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (POLITICAL 
     AFFAIRS).

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