[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14472]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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                           EXECUTIVE CALENDAR

  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Senate proceed to executive session to consider the following 
nomination: No. 359; that the nomination be confirmed the motion to 
reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no 
intervening action or debate; that no further motions be in order to 
the nomination; that any related statements be printed in the Record; 
that the President be immediately notified of the Senate's action and 
the Senate resume legislative session.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The nomination considered and confirmed is as follows:


                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE

       Robert Stephen Ford, of Vermont, a Career Member of the 
     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be 
     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United 
     States of America to the Syrian Arab Republic.

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