[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 15 (Monday, April 18, 2005)]
[Page 617]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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  Nominations  Submitted to the Senate

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The following list does not include promotions of members of the 
Uniformed Services, nominations to the Service Academies, or nominations 
of Foreign Service officers.

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 Submitted April 11

 Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, USAF,

 to be Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (new 
position).
 Submitted April 14

 Robert J. Portman,

 of Ohio, to be U.S. Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador 
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, vice Robert B. Zoellick, resigned.

 Eduardo Aguirre, Jr.,

 of Texas, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 
United States of America to Spain, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 
of the United States of America to Andorra.

 David R. Hill,

 of Missouri, to be General Counsel of the Department of Energy, vice 
Lee Sarah Liberman Otis, resigned.

 Phyllis F. Scheinberg,

 of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, vice Linda 
Morrison Combs.

 Emil M. Skodon,

 of Illinois, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of 
Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam.

 Craig Roberts Stapleton,

 of Connecticut, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of 
the United States of America to France.
 Submitted April 15

 Raymond Simon,

 of Arkansas, to be Deputy Secretary of Education, vice Eugene Hickok, 
resigned.