[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 23710]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

  The following executive reports of nominations were submitted:

       By Mr. HARKIN for the Committee on Health, Education, 
     Labor, and Pensions.
       *M. Patricia Smith, of New York, to be Solicitor for the 
     Department of Labor.
       *William E. Spriggs, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
     Secretary of Labor.
       *Joseph A. Main, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of 
     Labor for Mine Safety and Health.
       *Regina M. Benjamin, of Alabama, to be Medical Director in 
     the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, subject to 
     qualifications therefor as provided by law and regulations, 
     and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service for a 
     term of four years.

  *Nomination was reported with recommendation that it be confirmed 
subject to the nominee's commitment to respond to requests to appear 
and testify before any duly constituted committee of the Senate.

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