[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 17747-17748]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

  The following executive reports of nominations were submitted:

       By Ms. LANDRIEU for the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources.
       *Colette Dodson Honorable, of Arkansas, to be a Member of 
     the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the remainder of 
     the term expiring June 30, 2017.
       By Mr. MENENDEZ for the Committee on Foreign Relations.
       Leslie Berger Kiernan, of Maryland, as an Alternate 
     Representative of the United States of America, to the Sixty-
     ninth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
       Antony Blinken, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of 
     State.

  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. President, for the Committee on Foreign Relations I 
report favorably the following nomination list which was printed in the 
Record on the date indicated, and ask unanimous consent, to save the 
expense of reprinting on the Executive Calendar that this nomination 
lie at the Secretary's desk for the information of Senators.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

       Foreign Service nominations beginning with Melinda Masonis 
     and ending with Jeffrey R. Zihlman, which nominations were 
     received by the Senate and appeared in the Congressional 
     Record on April 10, 2014.
       By Mr. LEAHY for the Committee on the Judiciary.
       Joan Marie Azrack, of New York, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
       Elizabeth K. Dillon, of Virginia, to be United States 
     District Judge for the Western District of Virginia.
       Loretta Copeland Biggs, of North Carolina, to be United 
     States District Judge for the Middle District of North 
     Carolina.
       Michael P. Botticelli, of the District of Columbia, to be 
     Director of National Drug Control Policy.

  *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.
  (Nominations without an asterisk were reported with the 
recommendation that they be confirmed.)

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