Nominations Submitted to the Senate

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Names: Abbey, Robert V.; Abbott, Sherburne B.; Addleton, Jonathan S.; Adelman, David; Adelstein, Jonathan S.; Adler, Robert S.; Adorno, Rolena K.; Alexander, Adele L.; Ali, Russlynn; Allison, Herbert M., Jr.; Anastas, Paul T.; Anderson, Brooke D.; Andrew, Anne S.; Aponte, Mari Del Carmen; Apostolakis, George; Appel, Peter H.; Arnavat, Gustavo; Ashe, Victor H.; Attwood, Cynthia L.; Avalos, Edward M.; Avant, Nicole A.; Babauta, Anthony M.; Babbitt, J.

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Nominations Submitted to the Senate

December 11, 2009

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

Submitted January 20

Steven Chu,

of California, to be Secretary of Energy.

Hillary Rodham Clinton,

of New York, to be Secretary of State.

Thomas Andrew Daschle,

of South Dakota, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Shaun L.S. Donovan,

of New York, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Arne Duncan,

of Illinois, to be Secretary of Education.

Timothy F. Geithner,

of New York, to be Secretary of the Treasury.

Eric H. Holder, Jr.,

of the District of Columbia, to be Attorney General.

Lisa Perez Jackson,

of New Jersey, to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Ronald Kirk,

of Texas, to be U.S. Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Ray LaHood,

of Illinois, to be Secretary of Transportation.

Janet Ann Napolitano,

of Arizona, to be Secretary of Homeland Security.

Peter R. Orszag,

of Massachusetts, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Susan E. Rice,

of the District of Columbia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and the Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations.

Susan E. Rice,

of the District of Columbia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during her tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations.

Christina Duckworth Romer,

of California, to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, vice Edward P. Lazear.

Kenneth Lee Salazar,

of Colorado, to be Secretary of the Interior.

Eric K. Shinseki,

of Hawaii, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Hilda L. Solis,

of California, to be Secretary of Labor.

Thomas J. Vilsack,

of Iowa, to be Secretary of Agriculture.

Dennis Cutler Blair,

of Pennsylvania, to be Director of National Intelligence, vice J. Michael McConnell, resigned.

Michele A. Flournoy,

of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, vice Eric S. Edelman, resigned.

Gary Gensler,

of Maryland, to be Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for a term expiring April 13, 2012, vice Rueben Jeffery III, resigned.

Gary Gensler,

of Maryland, to be Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, vice Rueben Jeffery III, resigned.

Austan Dean Goolsbee,

of Illinois, to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, vice Katherine Baicker, resigned.

Robert F. Hale,

of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), vice Tina Westby Jonas, resigned.

John P. Holdren,

of Massachusetts, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, vice John M. Marburger III.

Jeh Charles Johnson,

of New York, to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense, vice William J. Haynes II, resigned.

Jacob J. Lew,

of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources (new position).

Jane Lubchenco,

of Oregon, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, vice Conrad Lautenbacher, Jr., resigned.

William J. Lynn III,

of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, vice Gordon England.

Robert L. Nabors II,

of New Jersey, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, vice Stephen S. McMillin, resigned.

Cecilia Elena Rouse,

of California, to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, vice Donald B. Marron, resigned.

Mary L. Schapiro,

of the District of Columbia, to be a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission for a term expiring June 5, 2014, vice Christopher Cox, resigned.

James Braidy Steinberg,

of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of State, vice John D. Negroponte.

Nancy Helen Sutley,

of California, to be a member of the Council on Environmental Quality, vice James Laurence Connaughton.

Daniel K. Tarullo,

Of Massachusetts, to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of 14 years from February 1, 2008, vice Randall S. Kroszner, term expired.

Submitted January 26

Elena Kagan,

of Massachusetts, to be Solicitor General of the United States, vice Gregory G. Garre, resigned.

David W. Ogden,

of Virginia, to be Deputy Attorney General, vice Mark R. Filip.

Submitted January 27

Timothy F. Geithner,

of New York, to be the U.S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund for a term of 5 years; U.S. Governor of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a term of 5 years; U.S. Governor of the Inter-American Development Bank for a term of 5 years; U.S. Governor of the African Development Bank for a term of 5 years; U.S. Governor of the Asian Development Bank; U.S. Governor of the African Development Fund; U.S. Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vice Henry M. Paulson, Jr., r...

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