[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 3 (Monday, January 23, 2006)]
[Pages 97-98]
[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 January 18

 Ben S. Bernanke,

 of New Jersey, to be U.S. Alternate Governor of the International 
Monetary Fund for a term of 5 years, vice Alan Greenspan.

 Donald T. Bliss,

 of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as 
Representative of the United States of America on the Council of the 
International Civil Aviation Organization.

 Richard A. Boucher,

 of Maryland, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of 
Career Minister, to be Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian 
Affairs, vice Christina B. Rocca.

 Gale A. Buchanan,

 of Georgia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, 
Education, and Economics, vice Joseph J. Jen, resigned.

 Patricia A. Butenis,

 of Virginia, 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 People's Republic of Bangladesh.

 Robert M. Couch,

 of Alabama, to be President, Government National Mortgage Association, 
vice Ronald Rosenfeld.

 Tyler D. Duvall,

 of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, vice Emil 
H. Frankel.

 Preston M. Geren,

 of Texas, to be Under Secretary of the Army, vice R.L. Brownlee, 
resigned.

 James B. Gulliford,

 of Missouri, to be Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, vice Stephen L. Johnson, resigned.

 Roger Shane Karr,

 of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Transportation, vice Nicole R. Nason.

 Nicole R. Nason,

 of Virginia, to be Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, vice Jeffrey William Runge.

 David L. Norquist,

 of Virginia, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of Homeland 
Security, vice Andrew B. Maner.

 David C. Sanborn,

 of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Maritime Administration, vice 
William Schubert.

 Jackie Wolcott Sanders,

 of Virginia, to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of 
America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations 
during her tenure of service as Alternate Representative of the United 
States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations.

 Jackie Wolcott Sanders,

 of Virginia, to be Alternate Representative of the United States of 
America for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with the 
rank of Ambassador.

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 John A. Simon,

 of Maryland, to be Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private 
Investment Corporation, vice Ross J. Connelly, resigned.

 James S. Simpson,

 of New York, to be Federal Transit Administrator, vice Jennifer L. 
Dorn.

 Mark D. Wallace,

 of Florida, to be Alternate Representative of the United States of 
America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 
during his tenure of service as Representative of the United States of 
America to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform.

 Mark D. Wallace,

 of Florida, to be Representative of the United States of America to the 
United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of 
Ambassador, vice Patrick Francis Kennedy.
 Withdrawn January 18

 Eugene Hickok,

 of Pennsylvania, to be a member of the National Council on the 
Humanities for the remainder of the term expiring January 26, 2008, vice 
Sidney McPhee, which was sent to the Senate on October 17, 2005.