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“THE NEW NULLIFICATION” AT WORK
EXECUTIVE BRANCH NOMINATIONS AND THE TACTICS OF OBSTRUCTION
By Stephen Spaulding, policy counsel, Common Cause
Research assistance provided by Ben Soskin*
*Research assistance provided during his tenure with New Partners Communications.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Nearly six months after the U.S. Senate essentially called a halt to filibusters of most presidential nominations, some
139 nominees are languishing on the Senate floor, hostages to other obstructionist tactics by the Republican minority.
Congressional scholars Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann have coined the term “the new nullification” to describe efforts
to block nominations based on opposition to duly-enacted laws rather than nominees’ qualifications.1
While the severe backlog of judicial nominees to lifetime appointments endangers fair and equal access to justice, the bulk
of this report will focus on nominees to other offices. The vast majority of nominations – over 110 of the 139 pending
on the floor – are to executive branch and independent agencies.
The backlog of nominations pending on the floor under President Obama is far larger than it was at comparable points
in the presidencies of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Unable to hold things up by using the filibuster rule’s 60-vote
requirement for Senate action, obstruction-minded senators have adopted time-wasting tactics that exploit other Senate
rules and customs.
The following pages offer an updated look at the nominees who are stuck in Senate limbo and a reminder of the fact that
Senate obstruction remains a major hurdle to functional governance in our nation.
1 Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, p. 98 (Basic Books 2012).
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NOMINEES PENDING CONFIRMATION
• On May 5, the Senate had 258 nominees awaiting confirmation.
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139 nominees total are pending on the Senate floor, including judges.
* At this point in the George W. Bush Administration, only 40 nominees were pending on the
Senate floor.
* At this point in the Clinton Administration, only 18 nominees were pending on the Senate floor.
»» Over 110 nominees to executive branch agencies and offices are pending on the Senate floor.
* At this point in the George W. Bush Administration, only 32 executive branch or independent
office nominees were pending on the Senate floor.
* At this point in the Clinton Administration, only 12 executive branch or independent office
nominees were pending on the Senate floor.
WAIT TIME FOR CONFIRMATION
• Executive branch and independent agency nominees on the floor have been waiting for a confirmation vote
an average of more than nine months since their nominations.
»» 3 executive branch and independent agency nominees have been waiting more than three years for a
confirmation vote since their nominations.
»» 15 executive branch and independent agency nominees have been waiting more than two years for a
confirmation vote since their nominations.
»» 20 executive branch and independent agency nominees have been waiting since the 112th Congress for
a confirmation vote, which ended in 2012.
»» 1 nominee, Thomas Hicks, to the Election Assistance Commission, has been waiting for a vote since
his nomination in the 111th Congress, in 2010.
CLOTURE VOTES
• As of May 5, 2014, senators have voted on cloture more than 115 times in this Congress, shattering the
previous record of 112 set in 2008. The number of cloture votes is a rough measure of obstruction in the
Senate.
• Thirteen times since they lowered the threshold for ending debate from 60 votes to 51 in November,
senators have had to waste precious floor time on cloture votes to end filibusters on judicial nominees that
were then confirmed unanimously.
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INTRODUCTION: THE SENATE’S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET
“There’s a dirty little secret in the United States Senate that we all know but most of the people in America don’t know. A
senator has his or her power not because of what we can do but because of what we can stop,” Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa’s
senior senator, said in November 2013.2 One day after making these remarks, Senator Harkin (who considers the Senate’s filibuster rule “inherently unconstitutional”)3 voted with a majority of his colleagues to lower the threshold of votes necessary to end filibusters of presidential
nominations from 60 to 51 (except for Supreme Court nominees).4 This change prohibited a minority of senators from
blocking the Senate from exercising its core function of advice and consent.
It came on the heels of a summer of obstruction earlier in 2013, when Republican senators threatened to block up or
down confirmation votes on the nominations of the Secretary of Labor, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection
Agency and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, as well the commissioners to the National Labor
Relations Board.5 In November, after senators blocked confirmation votes for three nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the D.C. Circuit, Majority Leader Harry Reid engineered a change in the application of the filibuster rule that now
permits a simple majority of 51 senators to vote “yea” or “nay” on the question of whether to end debate on nominees
and provide the Senate’s advice and consent to the President.
As a result of November’s changes to Senate procedures governing nominations, senators began voting on confirmations
for critical vacancies. Three D.C. Circuit judges,6 Director of the Federal House Finance Agency,7 a member of the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission,8 a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board,9 Deputy Secretary
of Homeland Security,10 Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service,11 and Chairman of the Federal Reserve12 would
not have been confirmed but for the new majority-vote threshold. Each of these nominees had majority support but less
than 60 votes on cloture and confirmation.
Because one standard of a healthy democracy is a fully-staffed government, last November’s change in Senate procedure
was an important step forward. Otherwise, all of the above positions may have remained vacant at least well into the
President’s second term.
2 All Things Considered, “Sen. Harkin on Filibuster: ‘We’ve Got to Change These Rules,’” NPR, Nov. 20, 2013, http://www.npr.org/
templates/story/story.php?storyId=246409440.
3 Kay Steiger, “Sen. Tom Harkin: Filibuster Rule is ‘Inherently Unconstitutional,’” Raw Story, May 16, 2012, http://www.rawstory.com/
rs/2012/05/16/sen-tom-harkin-filibuster-rule-is-inherently-unconstitutional/.
4 Jeremy W. Peters, “In Landmark Vote, Senate Limits Use of the Filibuster,” New York Times, November 21, 2013, http://www.nytimes.
com/2013/11/22/us/politics/reid-sets-in-motion-steps-to-limit-use-of-filibuster.html.
5 Burgess Everett, “Harry Reid: 3 Obama Confirmations Coming, Politico, July 17, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/harry-reid3-obama-confirmations-coming-94329.html.
6 Patricia Millett (PN527 – 113th Cong.); Cornelia Pillard (PN528 – 113th Cong.); Robert Wilkins (PN529 – 113th Cong.). 7 Melvin Watt (PN408- 113th Cong.).
8 Chai Feldblum (PN507- 113th Cong.).
9 Patricia Wald (PN243 – 113th Cong.).
10 Alejandro Mayorkas (PN640 – 113th Cong.).
11 John Koskinen (PN784 – 113th Cong.).
12 Janet Yellen (PN921 – 113th Cong.).
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A Note On Process and Terminology
As a baseline matter, the Senate operates on unanimous consent. Whether a senator’s motion is to proceed to vote on a
bill or to end a routine quorum call, the least time consuming procedure is to ask unanimous consent.
If just one senator objects to unanimous consent however, everything grinds to a halt. When that happens, absent very
limited exceptions, the only way the Senate may move to a vote is to invoke cloture. According to the Senate’s own website, cloture is “the only formal procedure that the Senate rules provide for breaking a filibuster.”13 In other words, cloture
is the only way to end debate or maneuver around a senator’s objection on a matter of Senate business. For legislation,
cloture requires 60 votes. For nominations, cloture now requires only a simple majority of 51 votes, except for Supreme
Court nominees.14
Cloture is one of the best (although imprecise) proxies for measuring obstruction in the Senate. According to congressional
scholar Sarah Binder of the Brookings Institution, “majority leaders resort to cloture when they find themselves unable
to cajole the minority party to cooperate. … Counting cloture votes remains an imperfect – but still valid – method of
capturing minority efforts to block the Senate.”15 Cloture votes may dramatically undercount obstruction in the Senate
because senators who sense they will not prevail in a cloture vote opt not to go through the cloture proceedings.
Though it permits the Senate to move ahead, cloture is time consuming. Once a senator files a cloture petition, the vote
for cloture cannot occur until the second day after the filing.16 So absent unanimous consent to waive the rules, if a cloture
petition is filed on Monday, the Senate cannot vote for cloture until Wednesday.
Once the Senate votes affirmatively for cloture (and ends a filibuster), the Senate’s standing rules allow an additional 30
hours of post-cloture debate before voting on the substantive question, although the times have been shortened in the
current 113th Congress for many nominations. In January 2013, as part of a deal to stave off stronger reforms to the
rules, senators agreed to a standing order that reduces the amount of post-cloture debate time on nominations (but not
on legislation).17 According to that resolution, which will sunset at the end of this Congress, the maximum 30 hours of
post-cloture debate time apply to Supreme Court, cabinet-level and other senior executive branch nominations. For all
other executive branch positions, post-cloture debate time is limited to 8 hours (equally divided, which means that one
side of the aisle may waive its time and reduce post-cloture debate time by half ). Finally, the standing order permits only
2 hours of post-cloture debate on federal district court nominees.
13 Cloture, United States Senate Website, http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Cloture_vrd.htm (last accessed April 29,
2014).
14 Congressional Record, November 21, 2013, daily edition, p. S8417; Senate Roll Call Vote No. 242 (113thCong.).
15 Sarah Binder, “What Senate Cloture Votes Tell Us About Obstruction,” Washington Post, Monkey Cage Blog, Nov. 12, 2013, http://www.
washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2013/11/12/what-senate-cloture-votes-tell-us-about-obstruction/
16 Standing Rule of the Senate XXII; Valerie Heitshusen, Majority Cloture for Nominations: Implications and the “Nuclear” Proceedings,
Congressional Research Service, Dec. 6, 2013, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43331.pdf.
17 S. Res. 15 (113th Cong.).
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HURDLES TO CONFIRMATION
Cloture
Petition
Filed to End
Filibuster
Wait 2 days
Cloture
Vote
Post-Cloture Debate
(30, 8, or 2 hours)
Confirmation
Vote
Many Senate Nominations Remain Gridlocked, Although Confirmations Are No Longer Subject
to Supermajority Thresholds
While lowering cloture on nominations from 60 to 51 votes was not a panacea for the Senate’s partisan dysfunction, it
restored the chamber’s constitutional role as the provider of advice and consent on presidential nominations. The confirmation process still lags unnecessarily, however.
Although the threshold for cloture on all nominees (except for the Supreme Court) is now 51 rather than 60 votes, the
procedure required to obtain cloture remains time-consuming. Upon ending a filibuster, post-cloture debate on nominations can require days of floor time that could otherwise be spent on legislating.
Since November 2013’s procedural changes, Republicans have engaged in a strategy of blocking unanimous consent
requests even for action on noncontroversial nominees, including some who enjoyed unanimous support.
As noted earlier, even with the threshold to invoke cloture lowered to 51 votes, the Senate had to conduct cloture votes
to end filibusters on 13 judicial nominees who were ultimately confirmed unanimously.18
Judicial Nominations – Forced to Vote on Cloture, But Confirmed Unanimously
Since Lowering Threshold for Cloture on Nominations from 60 to 51
Name
Position
On Cloture
On Confirmation
George Hazel
U.S. District Judge
55 - 42
95 - 0
Cynthia Bashant
U.S. District Judge
56 - 41
94 - 0
Daniel Crabtree
U.S. District Judge
57 - 39
94 - 0
Stanley Bastian
U.S. District Judge
55 - 41
95 - 0
Sheryl Lipman
U.S. District Judge
58 - 39
95 – 0
Christopher Cooper
U.S. District Judge
56 - 43
100 – 0
Laurie Michelson
U.S. District Judge
56 - 43
98 – 0
Judith Levy
U.S. District Judge
56 - 42
97 – 0
Matthew Leitman
U.S. District Judge
55 – 43
98 -0
Carolyn McHugh
U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Tenth Circuit
62 - 34
98- 0
Timothy Brooks
U.S. District Judge
59 – 41
100 – 0
Pamela Reeves
U.S. District Judge
62 – 37
99 – 0
Pedro Delgado Hernandez
U.S. District Judge
57 – 41
98 - 0
18 See also Stephen Spaulding, “Two Shameful Milestones,” Common Cause Common Blog, http://www.commonblog.com/2014/03/31/twoshameful-milestones/ (last accessed April 26, 2014).
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Republicans have utilized a similar tactic for executive branch positions, using the cloture process to slow down action
on nominees who ultimately won overwhelming votes for confirmation.
Executive Branch Nominations – Forced to Vote on Cloture, But Confirmed by a Supermajority
Since Lowering Threshold for Cloture on Nominations from 60 to 51
Name
Position
On Cloture
On Confirmation
Jeh Johnson
Secretary of Homeland
Security
57 – 30
78 – 16
Anne Patterson
Assistant Secretary of
State (Near Eastern
Affairs)
54 – 36
78 - 16
Heather Higginbottom
Deputy Secretary of
State for Management
and Resources
51 - 34
74 – 17
Deborah Lee James
Secretary of the Air
Force
58 – 39
79 - 6
The only plausible explanation for minority demands for cloture votes on nominations that eventually are confirmed
with huge supermajorities is that the minority wants to “play out the clock,” slowing down and obstructing the Senate
from solving problems and legislating. The bottleneck effects of spending extra days voting for cloture are exacerbated
because of the Senate’s truncated work week schedule, which typically only has senators in Washington from Monday
evening until Thursday.19
Over 110 Executive Branch Nominees Await Confirmation
In delaying confirmation to important offices – in some cases, for years – the Senate’s dysfunction extends throughout
government. It blunts or even thwarts the will of the voters, as key policy positions in the Administration remain vacant
for years and government becomes less responsive to the challenges facing its citizens.
This systematic blocking and delaying of presidential appointments – including multiple cabinet officials - is new. President
Obama’s executive branch nominees have been subject to far more cloture votes than those of any previous president.
19 Burgess Everett, “The Senate’s Disappearing Fridays,” Politico, May 2, 2014, http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/senate-disappearingfriday-106258.html.
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Executive Nominee Cloture Votes in the Senate from Reagan to Obama
40
34
30
20
14
10
8
2
0
0
Reagan
1981-1989
Bush I
1989-1993
Clinton
1993-2001
Bush II
2001-2009
Obama
2009-Present
Source: Analysis of U.S. Senate Action on Cloture Votes, http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/clotureCounts.htm
Congressional scholars Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann have coined this effort “the ‘new nullification,’ where filibusters,
holds and hostage-taking are used to try to stop laws and programs [Republicans] don’t like.”20
Ornstein explained further that: The threat of filibuster, and the requirement for multiple cloture votes
on bills and nominees that are entirely uncontroversial – all to take
up precious floor time and delay or obstruct outright – is new and
different. … This has been true on both legislation and nominations,
but especially striking on nominations – and in another unprecedented
way, on executive nominations. In many instances, the issue was not the
nominee’s qualifications, but the desire to block an agency or bureau from
functioning at all or from implementing the law – what Tom Mann and I
have called “the new nullification.”21
This “new nullification” strategy is seen in the extraordinary backlog of pending nominations. As of May 5, 2014, 258
nominees await confirmation, including over 110 nominees pending on the Senate floor to executive branch agencies
and offices. To put this in perspective, at this point in the George W. Bush Administration, only 32 executive branch or
independent office nominees were pending on the Senate floor.22 Similarly, at this point in the Clinton Administration
only 12 executive branch or independent office nominees were pending on the Senate floor.23
20 Thomas Mann & Norm Ornstein, “How to Save Congress: Marginalize the Radicals,” Politico Magazine, Dec. 13, 2013, http://www.
politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/can-congress-be-saved-100974_Page2.html#.U2BhEoFdVQg; see also Thomas E. Mann and Norman
J. Ornstein, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, p. 98 (2012).
21 Norm Ornstein, “Senate Minority Party Wields the Filibuster as a Weapon of Mass Obstruction,” National Journal, July 17, 2013,
http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/washington-inside-out/senate-minority-party-wields-the-filibuster-as-a-weapon-of-massobstruction-20130717.
22 Executive Calendar, May 5, 2006 (109th Cong.).
23 Executive Calendar, May 5, 1998 (105th Cong.).
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Moreover, executive branch and independent agency nominees currently pending on the floor have been waiting an
average of over nine months since their nomination. This includes 3 nominees who have been waiting over 3 years for
a confirmation vote since their nominations, 15 nominees who have been waiting over 2 years since their nominations,
and 20 nominees who have been waiting since the 112th Congress for a confirmation vote (which ended in 2012). One
nominee, Thomas Hicks, has been waiting for confirmation to the Election Assistance Commission since the 111th
Congress in 2010.
Finally, senators have voted for cloture over 115 times in this Congress, which shatters the previous all-time record of
112 set in 2008.
Votes on Cloture
120
90
60
30
0
66th Congress (1919-1920)
80th Congress (1947-1948)
94th Congress (1975-1976)
108th Congress (2003-2004)
Source: Analysis of U.S. Senate Action on Cloture Votes, http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/clotureCounts.htm
Egregious Examples of Executive Branch Backlogs:
Election Assistance Commission
The most egregious examples of the backlog’s threat to democracy are the nominations of Thomas Hicks and Myrna Pérez
to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). President Obama originally nominated Hicks in April 2010 – more
than four years ago – and he nominated Pérez less than a year later in 2011. Hicks has been waiting for a confirmation
vote longer than any other pending nominee.24
The Help America Vote Act established the four-member EAC as a clearinghouse on critical matters of election administration, such as certifying election machines and assessing the impact of the National Voter Registration Act. Every seat
on the commission has been vacant since 2011.25
24 Mr. Hicks worked at Common Cause from 2001 – 2003.
25 Dave Levinthal, “Kill the Election Assistance Commission?,” Center for Public Integrity, Dec. 12, 2013, http://www.publicintegrity.
org/2013/12/12/13993/kill-election-assistance-commission.
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The lack of commissioners threatens the integrity of our elections. The bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election
Administration, co-chaired by the general counsels to the Obama and Romney 2012 campaigns, sounded the alarm on
the lack of EAC commissioners in its report to the President in January 2014. They wrote that the National Institute
of Standards and Technology proposed new federal voting machine standards several years ago, but the standards can
only be adopted “by the EAC, which, due to a lack of commissioners and the related problem of disagreement over the
agency’s mission and past direction, cannot currently carry out this task. … Without a fully functioning EAC to adopt
these new standards, many new technologies that might better serve local election administrators are not being
brought to the marketplace.”26
Meanwhile, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-IA, ranking member on the Senate Rules and Administration Committee (which has
jurisdictions over Hicks’ and Pérez’s nominations) has called for the EAC to be eliminated.27 The House Administration
Committee has already voted to end the EAC, with its chairwoman, Rep. Candice Miller, saying that “[t]here’s just no
reason for this agency to exist. We need to shut it down.” 28
Ambassadors
Nominees for ambassadorships to more than 30 countries remain backlogged; the list includes posts to Belize, Bosnia,
Hungary, Cameroon, Peru, Zambia, Kuwait, Sierra Leone and Niger. Of those nominations pending, the average wait
has been more than seven months since nomination. When more than 50 such ambassadors were waiting in March for
confirmation votes, Secretary of State John Kerry declared that the wait times impinge on foreign policy. He said that
“it’s unacceptable that so many of our nominees – countless numbers of ambassadors to very important countries – are
awaiting confirmation. Our national security is not served by keeping many professionals – people who have waited
patiently – in a perpetual limbo.”29
Science & the Environment
Kenneth Kopocis, nominee for assistant administrator for the Office of Water at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been pending since June 2011. Politico reports that he has been “held up by Sen. David Vitter, R-LA, who was
concerned that Clean Water Act enforcement would slow big private-sector projects.”30 Richard Engler, nominee to the
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, which investigates hazardous chemical accidents, has been pending
since December 2012. Politico reports that his wait “is typical of oversight board members whose path has been blocked,
in many cases, by Republican senators wary of increased oversight of private business.”31
Other individuals caught in the backlog include Jo Emily Handelsman and Robert Simon to be associate directors of
the Office of Science and Technology Policy (pending since July 2013); Franklin Orr to be under secretary for science
at the Department of Energy (pending since November 2013); Tommy Beaudreau to be assistant secretary for policy,
26 The American Voting Experience: Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, January 2014,
pg. 12, https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2014/01/Amer-Voting-Exper-final-draft-01-09-14-508.pdf
27 See Levinthal, supra note 25.
28 Deborah Barfield Berry, “House Panel OKs Ending Election Assistance Commission,” USA Today, June 5, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/
story/news/politics/2013/06/04/house-panel-approves-eliminating-election-commission/2389737/
29 Anne Gearan and Ed O’Keefe, “Senate Turf Fight Hurts Approval of Obama’s Diplomatic Nominees,” Washington Post, March 6, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-turf-fight-hurts-approval-of-obamas-diplomatic-nominees/2014/03/06/
f9640e72-a320-11e3-b865-38b254d92063_story.html.
30 Glenn Thrush, “Who’s In Washington Purgatory?,” Politico Magazine, Dec. 9, 2013, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/
whos-in-washington-purgatory-100920_Page2.html#.U2B8NIFdVQh.
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management and budget at the Department of Interior (pending since November 2013) and Rhea Sun Suh to be assistant
secretary for fish and wildlife at the Department of the Interior (pending since October 2013).
Education
Nominees to five vacancies at the Department of Education have been pending for an average of more than seven months,
including James Cole as general counsel (pending since June 2013) and Michael Yudin as assistant secretary for special
education (pending since July 2013).
Veterans Issues
Constance Tobias has been awaiting confirmation to chair the Board of Veterans’ Appeals since January 2012. The
President re-nominated her in January 2014. Meanwhile, Linda Schwartz’s nomination as assistant secretary for policy
and planning in the Department of Veterans Affairs has been pending since August 2013, and the nomination of Helen
Tierney to be the Department’s chief financial officer has been pending since October 2013.
Chief Financial Officers
Six Chief Financial Officer nominees have been pending for an average of over 6 months. In addition to the Veterans Affairs
nomination mentioned above, other chief financial officer nominees include those to the Department of Agriculture (Jon
Holladay, pending since May 2013), the Environmental Protection Agency (Victoria Wassmer, pending since September
2013), the Department of Energy (Joseph Hezir, pending since October 2013), NASA (David Radzanowski, pending
since November 2013) and Department of Housing and Urban Affairs (Bradford Huther, pending since March 2013).
CONCLUSION
The executive branch confirmation process is ripe for reform – from the number of positions requiring Senate confirmation to the intricacies of Senate procedure around post-cloture debate time. At a minimum, senators should not vote to
filibuster and subject nominees to cloture votes if the nominees otherwise enjoy overwhelming, if not unanimous, support.
Instead, senators wishing to express disapproval should simply vote “nay” on the confirmation, as they are entitled to do.
Delays that stretch on for years at a time threaten to stifle accountable and responsive government.
Such delays also create tremendous uncertainty in the lives of Americans who put themselves forward for public service
and could dissuade our best and brightest from joining the government’s ranks.
With over 110 executive branch nominations awaiting up or down votes, it is important that senators engage in due
deliberation, but ultimately fulfill their constitutional obligation to provide advice and consent to the President by voting
“yea” or “nay.” Doing so on a reasonable schedule will leave them with far more time to debate issues that matter.
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01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014EPW
01/06/2014Rules
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014Rules
Latest Nom
02/04/2014
01/29/2014
01/27/2014
01/30/2014
02/06/2014
01/30/2014
02/04/2014
01/30/2014
02/04/2014
01/30/2014
02/03/2014
02/03/2014
02/27/2014
02/06/2014
04/09/2014
04/09/2014
Reported
APPENDIX: PENDING NOMINATIONS AS OF MAY 5, 2014
12
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Virginia
Washington
Massachusetts
Maryland
California
Missouri
New York
Connecticut
Arizona
Washington
California
Wright, Jessica
Radelet, Carolyn Hessler
Scheinman, Adam M.
Robinson, Elizabeth M.
Rose, Frank Antone
Simon, Robert M
Lu, Donald
Hammond, Tony Lee
Bains, Leslie Elizabeth
Handelsman, Jo Emily
Daughton, Thomas
Hoza, Michael
Hyatt, Amy
Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Postal Regulatory Commission
Ambassador to the Republic of Palau
Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon
Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia
Department of State
Department of State
Department of State
Associate Director of the Office of Science and
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Technology Policy
Member, Board of Directors
Commissioner
Department of State
07/31/2013true
07/31/2013true
07/31/2013true
07/31/2013true
07/25/2013true
07/25/2013true
07/25/2013true
07/25/2013true
Associate Director of the Office of Science and
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Technology Policy
Ambassador to the Republic of Albania
07/18/2013true
07/18/2013true
07/18/2013true
07/18/2013true
07/18/2013true
07/11/2013true
07/10/2013true
07/10/2013true
07/10/2013true
07/09/2013true
Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and
Department of State
Compliance
Department of Energy
Department of State
Special Representative of the President for
Nuclear Nonproliferation, with the rank of
Ambassador
Under Secretary
Peace Corps
Director
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and
Department of Defense
Readiness
District of Columbia Courts
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the
District of Columbia
District of
Columbia
Nooter, William Ward
Department of State
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Department of Education
Rehabilitative Services
Ambassador to Belize
District of
Columbia
Massachusetts
Hoover, John
Yudin, Michael Keith
California
Moreno, Carlos Roberto
06/26/2013true
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
South Carolina
United States Mission to the United Nations
South Carolina
Lee, Alison Renee
06/24/2013true
06/20/2013true
06/13/2013true
06/26/2013true
California
South Carolina
Hendricks, Bruce Howe
Department of State
Re-Nom
06/11/2013true
First Nom
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
South Carolina
Ambassador to the Republic of Peru
Federal Judiciary
Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation
Nix-Hines, Crystal L
Rhode Island
Nichols, Brian
United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of North Carolina
Member, Board of Trustees
Rank of Ambassador during tenure of
service as the United States Permanent
Representative to the United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization
North Carolina
May-Parker, Jennifer
Prescod
Agency Name
Department of State
Kentucky
Nethery, Mark Thomas
Position Title
Rank of Ambassador during tenure of service
as the United States Representative to the UN Department of State
Human Rights Council
Ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone
Maryland
Home State
Harper, Keith Michael
Name
Committee
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Commerce
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014HSGA
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Commerce
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Energy
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Armed Services
01/06/2014HSGA
01/06/2014HELP
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
Latest Nom
01/15/2014
01/15/2014
01/15/2014
01/13/2014
02/04/2014
01/15/2014
01/13/2014
02/04/2014
01/16/2014
01/15/2014
01/15/2014
01/09/2014
01/14/2014
01/29/2014
01/15/2014
01/15/2014
01/15/2014
03/06/2014
01/15/2014
02/04/2014
02/04/2014
Reported
13
Hawaii
Texas
California
Massachusetts
New York
Ohio
Illinois
Texas
Lawson, Michael Anderson
Frank, Richard Gabriel
Tsunis, George J
Williams, Roy Kojo Jawara
Wassmer, Victoria
Moreno, Luis
Ambassador to Jamaica
Department of State
Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Commerce
Assistant Secretary and Administrator for
Economic Development
Chief Financial Officer
Department of State
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway
09/11/2013true
09/11/2013true
09/11/2013true
09/11/2013true
09/11/2013true
Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation
Department of Health and Human Services
09/11/2013true
Rank of Ambassador during tenure of service
as Representative of the United States on
Department of State
the Council of the International Civil Aviation
Organization
09/11/2013true
09/11/2013true
Department of the Interior
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy Department of Energy
Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas
09/11/2013true
09/11/2013true
Smith, Christopher Andrew
Department of State
Department of State
Department of the Navy
Kia`aina, Esther Puakela
Under Secretary of the Navy
Ambassador to the Republic of Angola
09/11/2013true
District of
Columbia
Department of Defense
Director of Cost Assessment and Program
Evaluation
08/01/2013true
08/01/2013true
08/01/2013true
La Lime, Helen
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Commissioner
Department of the Treasury
Department of Veterans Affairs
09/11/2013true
Giancarlo, J. Christopher
Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy
Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning
Virginia
New Jersey
Dynan, Karen
08/01/2013true
Andre, Larry
Maryland
Schwartz, Linda A.
Department of Justice
Assistant Attorney General for Legislative
Affairs
08/01/2013true
08/01/2013true
09/11/2013true
Connecticut
Kadzik, Peter J
Department of Energy
Department of State
General Counsel
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho
Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of
Mauritania
New York
Croley, Steven P.
Administrator of the Maritime Administration Department of Transportation
Michigan
Harrington, Matthew
08/01/2013true
Representative of the United States to the
Office of the United Nations and Other
Department of State
International Organizations in Geneva, with the
rank of Ambassador
Kentucky
Virginia
Hamamoto, Pamela Kiyomi
07/31/2013true
Department of State
Jaenichen, Paul Nathan
Hawaii
Estrada, John Learie
07/31/2013true
United States Tax Court
Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and
Tobago
07/31/2013true
Judge
Department of State
Massachusetts
Florida
Marvel, L. Paige
Ambassador to the Argentine Republic
07/31/2013true
Rooney, Jo Ann
Maryland
Mamet, Noah Bryson
Department of State
Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of
Timor-Leste
Re-Nom
07/31/2013true
First Nom
Michigan
California
Stanton, Karen
Department of State
Agency Name
Ambassador to the Republic of Niger
Position Title
Morin, Jamie M.
Michigan
Reddick, Eunice
Home State
District of
Columbia
Name
Committee
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014EPW
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Finance
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Energy
01/06/2014Energy
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Commerce
01/06/2014Armed Services
01/06/2014Armed Services
01/06/2014Agriculture
01/06/2014Finance
01/06/2014Veterans Affairs
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Energy
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Finance
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
Latest Nom
03/11/2014
02/27/2014
02/06/2014
02/04/2014
02/04/2014
01/16/2014
01/16/2014
01/15/2014
01/15/2014
01/13/2014
01/09/2014
01/09/2014
04/08/2014
02/06/2014
01/16/2014
01/16/2014
01/16/2014
01/15/2014
01/15/2014
03/11/2014
02/04/2014
01/15/2014
01/15/2014
Reported
14
Chief Financial Officer
Assistant Secretary for Communications and
Outreach
New Mexico
New York
Virginia
New York
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
Arizona
Virginia
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts
Virginia
Maryland
Arizona
Virginia
California
Virginia
Virginia
Virginia
Maryland
California
Massachusetts
Virginia
District of
Columbia
Feibelman, Camilla
Catherine
Arroyo, David Joseph
Ashford, Tamara Wenda
Caldwell, Leslie
Humetewa, Diane J.
Logan, Steven Paul
Rayes, Douglas L.
Tuchi, John Joseph
Keckler, Charles Norman
Wiltse
Barron, David Jeremiah
Mastroianni, Mark G.
Talwani, Indira
McCue, Susan Marie
Hyde, Dana
Lopes, Mark Edward
Novelli, Catherine
Chen, Lanhee Joseph
Cohen, Alan Lloyd
Chacon, Arnold Anthony
Tierney, Helen
Elkind, Jonathan Harald
Mitchell, Theodore Reed
Barber, Robert Cushman
Hezir, Joseph Stephen
Ritsch, Massie Evans
Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland
Under Secretary
Assistant Secretary for International Affairs
Chief Financial Officer
Director General of the Foreign Service
Member
Member
United States Alternate Governor
United States Executive Director
Chief Executive Officer
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of State
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of State
Social Security Advisory Board
10/30/2013true
10/30/2013true
10/30/2013true
10/30/2013true
10/30/2013true
10/07/2013true
10/07/2013true
09/30/2013true
09/30/2013true
09/30/2013true
European Bank For Reconstruction and
Development
Social Security Advisory Board
09/30/2013true
09/30/2013true
Inter-American Development Bank
Millennium Challenge Corporation
09/25/2013true
09/24/2013true
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
Massachusetts
Millennium Challenge Corporation
09/24/2013true
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
Massachusetts
Member, Board of Directors
09/24/2013true
United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit Federal Judiciary
09/23/2013true
09/19/2013true
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
Arizona
Legal Services Corporation
09/19/2013true
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
Arizona
Member, Board of Directors
09/19/2013true
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
Arizona
09/18/2013true
09/18/2013true
09/17/2013true
09/17/2013true
09/17/2013true
09/19/2013true
Department of Justice
Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal
Division
Re-Nom
09/17/2013true
First Nom
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
Arizona
United States Tax Court
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation
Department of State
Department of State
Agency Name
Judge
Member, Board of Directors
Member, Board of Trustees
Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia
Virginia
Schultz, Eric
Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic
Position Title
Akuetteh, Cynthia
Home State
District of
Columbia
Name
Committee
01/06/2014HELP
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014HELP
01/06/2014Energy
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Finance
01/06/2014Commerce
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
Latest Nom
02/27/2014
02/10/2014
02/04/2014
01/29/2014
01/16/2014
02/04/2014
01/15/2014
01/15/2014
01/15/2014
01/30/2014
02/06/2014
03/06/2014
01/16/2014
02/27/2014
02/27/2014
02/27/2014
02/27/2014
03/06/2014
02/04/2014
04/09/2014
04/02/2014
01/15/2014
01/15/2014
Reported
15
11/07/2013true
Member, Board of Directors
Chief Financial Officer
California
Arizona
New York
Massachusetts
Washington
Kentucky
Louisiana?
District of
Columbia
Orr, Jr., Franklin M.
Lopes, Mark Edward
Adegbile, Debo Patrick
Murthy, Vivek H
Korrell, Harry James
Franklyn
Maddox, Victor Bruce
Thomas-Greenfield, Linda
Radzanowski, David P
Member, Board of Directors
Member, Board of Directors
Surgeon General
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
Member, Board of Directors
Under Secretary for Science
Director
Chairman
Commissioner
Under Secretary for International Trade
Massachusetts
Environmental Protection Agency
Assistant Administrator for the Office of
Research and Development
Connecticut
Department of Education
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary
Education
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
African Development Foundation
Legal Services Corporation
Legal Services Corporation
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Justice
Inter-American Foundation
Department of Energy
Department of Energy
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Department of Commerce
Department of the Interior
Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management
and Budget
Federal Judiciary
United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Missouri
Kastner, Marc A.
White, Ronnie L.
11/07/2013true
United States District Judge for the Southern
Federal Judiciary
District of Illinois
Massad, Timothy George
Missouri
Rosenstengel, Nancy J.
11/07/2013true
Federal Judiciary
United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh
Circuit
Connecticut
Illinois
Rosenbaum, Robin S.
11/21/2013true
11/19/2013true
11/18/2013true
11/18/2013true
11/18/2013true
11/18/2013true
11/18/2013true
11/18/2013true
11/18/2013true
11/13/2013true
11/13/2013true
11/12/2013true
11/12/2013true
11/12/2013true
11/12/2013true
11/07/2013true
Federal Judiciary
New York
Florida
Peterson, James D.
11/07/2013true
Consumer Product Safety Commission
11/07/2013true
11/07/2013true
11/07/2013true
11/07/2013true
10/30/2013true
10/30/2013true
United States District Judge for the Western
District of Wisconsin
Department of State
Re-Nom
10/30/2013true
First Nom
Commissioner
Massad, Timothy George
Wisconsin
Mohorovic, Joseph Peter
Ambassador to Hungary
Selig, Stefan
Illinois
Bell, Colleen Bradley
Department of Energy
Principal Deputy Administrator, National
Nuclear Security Administration
Maryland
California
Creedon, Madelyn Raub
Department of Energy
Burke, Tom
Indiana
Williams, Ellen D.
International Monetary Fund
Director of the Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy
Department of the Interior
United States Alternate Governor
Virginia
Maryland
Yellen, Janet Louise
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife
Miller, Ericka Marie
California
Suh, Rhea Sun
Department of State
Ambassador to New Zealand and the
Independent State of Samoa
Alaska
Colorado
Gilbert, Mark David
Agency Name
Department of State
Position Title
Assistant Secretary for International
Organization Affairs
Beaudreau, Tommy Port
Florida
Crocker, Bathsheba Nell
Home State
District of
Columbia
Name
Committee
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014HELP
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014Energy
01/06/2014Energy
01/06/2014Agriculture
01/06/2014Agriculture
01/06/2014Finance
01/06/2014EPW
01/06/2014HELP
01/06/2014Energy
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Commerce
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Armed Services
01/06/2014Energy
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014EPW/Energy
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
Latest Nom
03/04/2014
03/24/2014
02/27/2014
02/06/2014
01/30/2014
01/16/2014
01/16/2014
04/08/2014
04/08/2014
02/06/2014
01/29/2014
01/16/2014
02/06/2014
03/06/2014
02/06/2014
02/04/2014
01/28/2014
01/16/2014
01/15/2014
03/27/2014
03/11/2014
03/11/2014
Reported
16
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the
District of Columbia
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the
District of Columbia
District of
Columbia
District of
Columbia
New Mexico
Texas
New York
Maryland
Virginia
Georgia
Trafford, Sherry Moore
Wellner, Steven M.
Martinez, Damon Paul
Silliman, Douglas Alan
Wood, Robert Anthony
Rothman, Thomas Edgar
Cook, Elisebeth Collins
Boggs, Michael P.
Carnes, Julie E.
Agency Name
District of Columbia Courts
District of Columbia Courts
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
Department of State
Re-Nom
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
Columbia
District of
Columbia
Georgia
Texas
Virginia
Georgia
Georgia
Massachusetts
Arizona
Pennsylvania
New York
Virginia
Maryland
Chutkan, Tanya S.
Cohen, Mark Howard
Costa, Gregg Jeffrey
Lauck, M. Hannah
May, Leigh Martin
Ross, Eleanor Louise
Sorokin, Leo T.
Soto, James Alan
Rosenbach, Eric Brien
Shear, David Bruce
Cruden, John C
Rodriguez, Leon
12/19/2013true
12/19/2013true
12/19/2013true
01/07/2014
01/07/2014
01/07/2014
United States District Judge for the Northern
Federal Judiciary
District of Georgia
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
Massachusetts
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
Arizona
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland
Department of Defense
Defense
Department of Defense
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and
Pacific Security Affairs
Assistant Attorney General for the
Department of Justice
Environment and Natural Resources Division
01/07/2014
12/19/2013true
United States District Judge for the Northern
Federal Judiciary
District of Georgia
Department of Homeland Security
12/19/2013true
Federal Judiciary
Director
12/19/2013true
United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Virginia
12/19/2013true
United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit Federal Judiciary
United States District Judge for the Northern
Federal Judiciary
District of Georgia
12/19/2013true
12/19/2013true
Federal Judiciary
United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh
Circuit
Georgia
12/17/2013true
12/19/2013true
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
12/13/2013true
United States District Judge for the Northern
Federal Judiciary
District of Georgia
Member
National Council on the Arts
12/13/2013true
Member
12/13/2013true
Department of State
11/21/2013true
11/21/2013true
11/21/2013true
11/21/2013true
11/21/2013true
First Nom
Rank of Ambassador during tenure of service
as United States Representative to the
Department of State
Conference on Disarmament
Ambassador to the State of Kuwait
United States Attorney for the District of New Office of the U.S. Attorneys, Department of
Mexico
Justice
Member, Board of Directors
Pennsylvania
Position Title
Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kennedy, Richard A
Home State
Virginia
Name
Cormack, Maureen
Committee
01/07/2014Judiciary
01/07/2014Judiciary
01/07/2014Armed Services
01/07/2014Armed Services
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
01/06/2014Judiciary
01/06/2014HSGA
01/06/2014HSGA
01/06/2014(privileged)
01/06/2014Foreign Relations
Latest Nom
04/03/2014
03/27/2014
03/26/2014
03/26/2014
02/27/2014
03/27/2014
03/27/2014
03/27/2014
03/27/2014
03/11/2014
03/11/2014
04/03/2014
03/26/2014
03/11/2014
Reported
17
Member, Board of Directors
Member, Board of Governors
Nebraska
Texas
Oregon
New Jersey
West Virginia
Maryland
District of
Columbia
New York
New York
Missouri
Vetter, Darci Lynn
McWatters, J. Mark
Biggs, Heidi Neel
Kempner, Michael Wayne
Kimball, Suzette M.
Moore, Wes
Brainard, Lael
Fischer, Stanley
Fischer, Stanley
Bough, Stephen R.
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Corporation for National and Community Service
National Credit Union Administration Board
Office of the United States Trade Representative
Department of State
Federal Judiciary
Representative of the United States to the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations, with
the Rank of Ambassador
United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Washington
Governor, Board of Governors
Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Opportunity
California
Washington
New York
Illinois
Maryland
District of
Columbia
Ohio
Hachigian, Nina Lucine
Mendoza, Jr., Salvador
Singh, Shamina
Yandle, Staci Michelle
Powell, Jerome H.
Velasquez Aguilar, Gustavo
McCord, Michael John
Department of Defense
Department of Defense
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
(Policy)
Commissioner, Federal Maritime Commission Federal Maritime Commission
Department of the Air Force
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Installations, Environment, and Logistics
Commissioner (Upon Appointment to be
Designated Chair)
New York
Pennsylvania
District of
Columbia
New Mexico
McKeon, Brian Patrick
Doyle, William Paul
Ballentine, Miranda A. A.
Bay, Norman C
Department of Defense
Wormuth, Christine ElizabethVirginia
Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
Federal Reserve System
United States District Judge for the Southern
Federal Judiciary
District of Illinois
Corporation for National and Community Service
Corporation for National and Community Service
Member, Board of Directors
Kentucky
Christman, Rick
Member, Board of Directors
01/16/2014
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
Nevada
Boulware II, Richard Franklin Nevada
01/30/2014
01/30/2014
01/30/2014
01/30/2014
01/30/2014
01/30/2014
01/16/2014
01/16/2014
01/16/2014
01/16/2014
01/16/2014
01/16/2014
01/16/2014
01/16/2014
Federal Judiciary
United States District Judge for the Western
District of Missouri
01/13/2014
01/13/2014
Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve System
01/13/2014
01/09/2014
01/09/2014
01/09/2014
01/09/2014
01/07/2014
01/07/2014
01/07/2014
01/07/2014
01/07/2014
First Nom
Vice Chairman, Board of Governors
Member, Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
Corporation for National and Community Service
Director of the United States Geological Survey Department of the Interior
Member
Member, Board of Directors
Member
Chief Agricultural Negotiator
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
New York
Bowen, Sharon Yvette
Commissioner
Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation Environmental Protection Agency
District of
Columbia
McCabe, Janet Garvin
Agency Name
United States Agency for International
Development
Virginia
Position Title
Alexander, Paige Eve
Home State
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Middle
East
Name
Re-Nom
Committee
01/30/2014Energy
01/30/2014Armed Services
01/30/2014Commerce
01/30/2014Armed Services
01/30/2014Armed Services
01/30/2014Armed Services
01/16/2014Banking
01/16/2014Banking
01/16/2014Judiciary
01/16/2014(privileged)
01/16/2014Judiciary
01/16/2014Foreign Relations
01/16/2014(privileged)
01/16/2014Judiciary
01/16/2014Judiciary
01/13/2014Banking
01/13/2014Banking
01/13/2014Banking
01/09/2014(privileged)
01/09/2014Energy
01/09/2014Foreign Relations
01/09/2014(privileged)
01/07/2014Banking
01/07/2014Finance
01/07/2014Agriculture
01/07/2014EPW
01/07/2014Foreign Relations
Latest Nom
04/09/2014
04/08/2014
03/26/2014
03/26/2014
04/29/2014
04/29/2014
04/03/2014
04/03/2014
04/03/2014
04/29/2014
04/29/2014
04/29/2014
04/29/2014
04/08/2014
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California
Home State
Position Title
Department of State
International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development [World Bank]
Department of Agriculture
Member, Board of Directors
Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the
Bahamas
United States Executive Director of the
International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development
Assistant Secretary for Congressional
Relations
United States Executive Director
Associate Judge of the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals
Wisconsin
District of
Columbia
District of
Columbia
Iowa
Wisconsin
Missouri
Maryland
Massachusetts
Maryland
Virginia
District of
Columbia
Florida
Virginia
Green, Mark Andrew
Butts, Cassandra Quin
McGuire, Matthew
Batta, Todd Allen
Cancian, Maria
Chu, Rose Jane
Clark, Julia Akins
Kennedy, Victoria Reggie
Sheets, David Nathan
Sobel, Mark David
Kim, Todd Sunhwae
Rosenberg, Robin L.
Disbrow, Lisa Stephens
Department of Defense
Virginia
Junor, Laura Jean
Inter-American Foundation
Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
(Personnel and Readiness)
Maryland
Jacobson, Roberta S
Inter-American Foundation
Member, Board of Directors
Maryland
Iturregui, Juan Carlos
Office of the United States Trade Representative
Member, Board of Directors
Deputy United States Trade Representative
Holleyman II, Robert Walker Louisiana
02/27/2014
02/27/2014
02/27/2014
02/27/2014
02/27/2014
Department of the Air Force
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for
Financial Management
02/24/2014
02/12/2014
02/12/2014
02/12/2014
02/12/2014
02/12/2014
02/12/2014
02/26/2014
District of Columbia Courts
International Monetary Fund
Department of the Treasury
United States Postal Service
Federal Labor Relations Authority
National Endowment for the Arts
02/12/2014
02/10/2014
02/10/2014
02/10/2014
United States District Judge for the Southern
Federal Judiciary
District of Florida
Under Secretary for International Affairs
Governor, Board of Governors
General Counsel
Chairman
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Department of Health and Human Services
Millennium Challenge Corporation
02/06/2014
Federal Judiciary
United States District Judge for the Middle
District of Florida
Florida
Mendoza, Carlos Eduardo
02/06/2014
Federal Judiciary
United States Circuit Judge for the Third
Circuit
New Jersey
Krause, Cheryl Ann
02/06/2014
United States District Judge for the Southern
Federal Judiciary
District of Florida
Florida
Gayles, Darrin P.
02/06/2014
Federal Judiciary
United States District Judge for the Middle
District of Florida
Florida
Byron, Paul G.
02/06/2014
01/30/2014
01/30/2014
01/30/2014
First Nom
United States District Judge for the Southern
Federal Judiciary
District of Florida
Florida
Inter-American Development Bank
Bloom, Beth
United States Alternate Executive Director
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
Environmental Protection Agency
Agency Name
Guilarte, Mileydi
Member
Assistant Administrator for Environmental
Information
District of
Columbia
Ehrlich, Jr., Manuel Herman New Jersey
Dunkin, Ann Elizabeth
Name
Re-Nom
Committee
02/27/2014Armed Services
02/27/2014(privileged)
02/27/2014(privileged)
02/27/2014Finance
02/27/2014(privileged)
02/26/2014Judiciary
02/24/2014HSGA
02/12/2014Foreign Relations
02/12/2014Finance
02/12/2014HSGA
02/12/2014HSGA
02/12/2014HELP
02/12/2014Finance
02/12/2014(privileged)
02/10/2014Foreign Relations
02/10/2014Foreign Relations
02/10/2014(privileged)
02/06/2014Judiciary
02/06/2014Judiciary
02/06/2014Judiciary
02/06/2014Judiciary
02/06/2014Judiciary
01/30/2014Foreign Relations
01/30/2014EPW
01/30/2014EPW
Latest Nom
04/11/2014
04/03/2014
Reported
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Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Energy
Commissioner of Reclamation
Assistant Secretary
Assistant Secretary for Environmental
Management
New Mexico
District of
Columbia
Illinois
Illinois
Georgia
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Louisiana
Moritsugu, Erika Lizabeth
Regalbuto, Monica C.
Schapiro, Andrew H.
Abrams, Leslie Joyce
Daly, Deirdre M.
Davenport, Judith M.
deGravelles, John W.
Kansas
New York
New York
New York
North Carolina
Virginia
Florida
California
Maryland
Illinois
California
Maryland
California
Alabama
Maine
Virginia
Miller, Ronald Lee
Kaye, Elliot F.
Kaye, Elliot F.
Lenhardt, Alfonso E.
Millsaps, Linda Struyk
Reuter, Dean A.
Sembler, Elizabeth
Birotte, Jr., Andre
Moss, Randolph D.
Cohen, Steven H.
Kelly III, Thomas P.
Nishida, Jane Toshiko
Sabharwal, Sunil
Tanner, Gordon O.
Adams, William D.
Firestone, Nancy B.
Judge
Chairperson
General Counsel
United States Alternate Executive Director
Assistant Administrator
Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti
United States Court of Federal Claims
National Endowment for the Humanities
Department of the Air Force
International Monetary Fund
Environmental Protection Agency
Department of State
Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation
04/10/2014
04/10/2014
04/07/2014
04/07/2014
04/07/2014
04/07/2014
04/07/2014
04/03/2014
United States District Judge for the District of
Federal Judiciary
Columbia
Member, Board of Trustees
04/03/2014
Federal Judiciary
United States District Judge for the Central
District of California
03/31/2014
03/31/2014
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Corporation for National and Community Service
03/31/2014
03/31/2014
United States Agency for International
Development
Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board
03/31/2014
03/31/2014
03/13/2014
03/13/2014
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer Product Safety Commission
U.S. Marshals Service, Department of Justice
Department of Housing and Urban Development
03/13/2014
03/13/2014
03/13/2014
03/13/2014
03/11/2014
03/10/2014
03/10/2014
03/10/2014
03/10/2014
03/10/2014
02/27/2014
02/27/2014
First Nom
Member, Board of Directors
Member, Board of Directors
Member
Deputy Administrator
Commissioner
Chairman
United States Marshal for the District of
Kansas
Chief Financial Officer
Huther, Bradford Raymond
Virginia
United States Attorney for the Middle District Office of the U.S. Attorneys, Department of
of Louisiana
Justice
Federal Judiciary
Green, James Walter Frazer Louisiana
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Office of the U.S. Attorneys, Department of
Justice
United States Attorney for the District of
Connecticut
United States District Judge for the Middle
District of Louisiana
Federal Judiciary
Member, Board of Directors
Department of State
United States District Judge for the Middle
District of Georgia
Department of the Interior
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Ambassador to the Czech Republic
Deputy Secretary
Inter-American Foundation
California
Member, Board of Directors
Lopez, Estevan R.
Agency Name
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Coloretti, Nani Ann
Position Title
Florida
Member
Taddeo-Goldstein, Annette
Home State
New York
Name
Kornbluh, Karen Francine
Re-Nom
Committee
04/10/2014Judiciary
04/10/2014HELP
04/07/2014Armed Services
04/07/2014Foreign Relations
04/07/2014EPW
04/07/2014Foreign Relations
04/07/2014(privileged)
04/03/2014Judiciary
04/03/2014Judiciary
03/31/2014(privileged)
03/31/2014(privileged)
03/31/2014(privileged)
03/31/2014Foreign Relations
03/31/2014Commerce
03/31/2014Commerce
03/13/2014Judiciary
03/13/2014(privileged)
03/13/2014Judiciary
03/13/2014Judiciary
03/13/2014Commerce
03/13/2014Judiciary
03/13/2014Judiciary
03/10/2014Foreign Relations
03/10/2014Energy
03/10/2014(privileged)
03/10/2014Energy
03/10/2014Banking
02/27/2014(privileged)
02/27/2014Foreign Relations
Latest Nom
04/29/2014
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Assistant Secretary
Assistant Administrator
Member, Advisory Board
United States Director
Director
Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation
and Policy Development
Virginia
District of
Columbia
Iowa
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
New York
District of
Columbia
Massachusetts
Virgina
Hawaii
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Ohio
New Hampshire
Virginia
North Carolina
District of
Columbia
Illinois
Stivers, Jonathan Nicholas
Toloui, Ramin
Wells, Alice G.
Burwell, Sylvia Mathews
Pepper, Pamela
Collins, Anthony G.
Occomy, Marcia Denise
Maeda, John
Mader, David Arthur
Wada, Debra
LaFleur, Cheryl A.
Krol, George Albert
Lippert, Mark William
Nealon, James D.
Smith, Dana Shell
Smith, Gentry O.
Gordon, Robert M.
Murawsky, Jeffrey A.
Agency Name
Under Secretary for Health
Ambassador to Qatar
Ambassador to Republic of Honduras
Ambassador to Korea
Ambassador to Republic of Kazakhstan
Member
Assistant Secretary of the Army
Controller
Member
Federal Judiciary
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of Education
Office of Foreign Missions
Department of State
Department of State
Department of State
Department of State
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Department of the Army
Office of Federal Financial Management
National Council on the Arts
African Development Bank
Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
Department of Health and Human Services
United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Wisconsin
Department of State
Secretary
Department of the Treasury
Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan
United States Agency for International
Development
Department of the Army
United States Court of Federal Claims
United States Court of Federal Claims
Deputy Under Secretary
Judge
Speer, Robert M.
Position Title
Pennsylvania
Judge
Halkowski, Thomas L.
Home State
Maryland
Name
Griggsby, Lydia Kay
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/05/2014
05/01/2014
04/11/2014
04/10/2014
04/10/2014
04/10/2014
04/10/2014
04/10/2014
04/10/2014
First Nom
Re-Nom
Committee
05/05/2014Veterans Affairs
05/05/2014HELP
05/05/2014Foreign Relations
05/05/2014Foreign Relations
05/05/2014Foreign Relations
05/05/2014Foreign Relations
05/05/2014Foreign Relations
05/05/2014Energy
05/05/2014Armed Services
Homeland
05/05/2014
Security
05/05/2014(privileged)
05/05/2014(privileged)
05/05/2014(privileged)
05/01/2014Judiciary
04/11/2014Finance
04/10/2014Foreign Relations
04/10/2014Finance
04/10/2014Foreign Relations
04/10/2014(privileged)
04/10/2014Judiciary
04/10/2014Judiciary
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