Senate Foreign Relations Committee Orders Reported Key Nominees and Legislation

The following was published by the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on March 31, 2009. It is reproduced in full below.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, the Committee on Foreign Relations held a business meeting to consider eight nominations and seven pieces of legislation. The Committee favorably reported, by voice vote, the following nominees and pieces of legislation:

Nominations

* Esther Brimmer to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs

* Karl Eikenberry to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

* Timothy Geithner to be U.S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

* Philip Gordon to be Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs

* Rose Gottemoeller to be Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance

* Christopher Hill to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq

* Richard Verma to be Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs

* Melanne Verveer to be Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues

Legislation

* S. 384, the Global Food Security Act of 2009, with an amendment

* S. 705, Overseas Private Investment Corporation Reauthorization Act

* S. Res. 90, a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, from April 17-19, 2009

* S. Con. Res. 11, a concurrent resolution condemning all forms of anti-Semitism and reaffirming the support of Congress for the mandate of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, and for other purposes, with an amendment

* S. Res. 9, a resolution commemorating 90 years of U.S.- Polish diplomatic relations

* S. Res. 20, a resolution celebrating the 60th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

* S. Res. 56, a resolution urging the Government of Moldova to ensure a fair and democratic election Process for the parliamentary elections on April 5, 2009

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Source: United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations