| Jon Cannon, nominee to be deputy chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, withdrew his nomination today: Today I am voluntarily removing my name from consideration to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. It has come to my attention that America's Clean Water Foundation, where I once served on the board of directors, has become the subject of scrutiny. While my service on the board of that now-dissolved organization is not the subject of the scrutiny, I believe the energy and environmental challenges facing our nation are too great to delay confirmation for this position, and I do not wish to present any distraction to the agency.
The Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee has finally scheduled the hearing for Karen Mills to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration. The hearing will be held on April 1, which is 102 days after her nomination was announced. Still no word on why this hearing has taken longer than any other hearing for an Obama nominee. Hearings scheduled:
Mar 26: Jane Holl Lute, of New York,Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. Homeland Security Cmte.
Mar 26: Ashton B. Carter, of Massachusetts, to be Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, James N. Miller, Jr., of Virginia, to be Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, and Alexander Vershbow, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, all of the Department of Defense, Armed Services
Mar 26: Karl Winfrid Eikenberry, of Florida, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Department of State, Foreign Relations
Mar 26: Thomas L. Strickland, of Colorado, to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, Department of the Interior, Energy and Natural Resources Cmte.
Mar 26: John Berry, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Mar 26: Hearings to examine the nomination of Rose Eilene Gottemoeller, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance, Department of State and Philip H. Gordon, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, both of the Department of State, Foreign Relations
Apr 1: W. Scott Gould, Deputy Secretary of VA, VA
Apr 1: Karen Gordon Mills, of Maine, to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration, Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Apr 1: David F. Hamilton, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, and Ronald H. Weich, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Judiciary |
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