The Senate confirmed several of President Obama’s executive nominations on Thursday.
{mosads}All of the nominees were confirmed by voice-vote, as the last legislative action the Senate will take in more than a month.
Lawmakers are completing business Thursday in order to leave town to campaign for midterm elections.
A list of the nominations that were confirmed follows:
– Mark William Lippert to be U.S. ambassador to Korea.
– Adam Scheinman to be special representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation.
– Kevin O’Malley to be U.S. ambassador to Ireland.
– Bathsheba Nell Crocker to be an assistant secretary of the State Department on International Organization Affairs.
– Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy.
– Robert Holleyman to be Deputy U.S. Trade Representative.
– Eric Rosenbach to be an assistant secretary of the Department of Defense.
– D. Nathan Sheets to be an under secretary of the Treasury Department.
– Charles Fulghum to be chief financial officer of the Department of Homeland Security.
– Alfonso Lenhardt to be deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.