{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2014-12-16-pt1-PgS6903-3", "2014-12-16", 113, 2, null, null, "EXECUTIVE CALENDAR, NOMINATION DISCHARGED, AND PRIVILEGED NOMINATIONS", "SENATE", "SENATE", "SEXECCAL", "S6903", "S6904", "[{\"name\": \"Harry Reid\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"Mark L. Pryor\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}, {\"name\": \"John Thune\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "160 Cong. Rec. S6903", "Congressional Record, Volume 160 Issue 155 (Tuesday, December 16, 2014)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 155 (Tuesday, December 16, 2014)]\n[Senate]\n[Pages S6903-S6904]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n EXECUTIVE CALENDAR, NOMINATION DISCHARGED, AND PRIVILEGED NOMINATIONS\n\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader.\n  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate\nproceed to the consideration of Calendar Nos. 900, Broadcasting Board\nof Governors; 651, 970, Chemical Safety Board; 1079, Rasmussen; 514,\nLopes; 1104, Bradley; 1141, Rosekind; 933, Tierney; 644, 645, 646, 737,\nUdall Foundation; 844, 845, 862, 864, 865, Legal Services Board; 757,\n1085, 1086, Election Assistance Corporation; 1062, 1005, U.S.\nAttorneys; 1099, 1100, Coleman; 790, Alexander; 1111, Berteau; 1110,\nScher; 1090, Baily; 1091, Cekuta; 1092, Uyehara; 1093, Mills; further,\nthat the commerce committee be discharged from further consideration of\nthe nomination PN 2092, O'Rielly; further, that the HELP Committee be\ndischarged from further consideration of PN2065, PN1279, PN1280, Legal\nServices Board; further, that the Environment and Public Works\nCommittee be discharged from further consideration of PN1916, Udall\nFoundation; that the nominations be agreed to; the motions to\nreconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no\nintervening action or debate; that no further motions be in order to\nthe nominations; that any statements related to the nominations be\nprinted in the Record; and that the President be immediately notified\nof the Senate's action.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?\n  Without objection, it is so ordered.\n  The nominations considered and confirmed are as follows:\n\n                    broadcasting board of governors\n\n       Karen Kornbluh, of New York, to be a Member of the\n     Broadcasting Board of Governors for a term expiring August\n     13, 2016.\n\n             chemical safety and hazard investigation board\n\n       Richard J. Engler, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the\n     Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board for a term of\n     five years.\n       Manuel H. Ehrlich, Jr., of New Jersey, to be a Member of\n     the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board for a term\n     of five years.\n\n            office of the director of national intelligence\n\n       Nicholas J. Rasmussen, of Virginia, to be Director of the\n     National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of\n     National Intelligence.\n\n                    inter-american development bank\n\n       Mark E. Lopes, of Arizona, to be United States Executive\n     Director of the Inter-American Development Bank for a term of\n     three years.\n\n                     DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS\n\n       Leigh A. Bradley, of Virginia, to be General Counsel,\n     Department of Veterans Affairs.\n\n                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION\n\n       Mark R. Rosekind, of California, to be Administrator of the\n     National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.\n\n                     DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS\n\n       Helen Tierney, of Virginia, to be Chief Financial Officer,\n     Department of Veterans Affairs.\n\n            MORRIS K. UDALL AND STEWART L. UDALL FOUNDATION\n\n       Charles P. Rose, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Board\n     of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall\n     Foundation for a term expiring May 26, 2019.\n       Mark Thomas Nethery, of Kentucky, to be a Member of the\n     Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall\n     Foundation for a term expiring October 6, 2018.\n       Anne J. Udall, of Oregon, to be a Member of the Board of\n     Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall\n     Foundation for a term expiring October 6, 2016.\n       Camilla C. Feibelman, of New Mexico, to be a Member of the\n     Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall\n     Foundation for a term expiring April 15, 2017.\n\n                       legal services corporation\n\n       Martha L. Minow, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the\n     Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation for a\n     term expiring July 13, 2017.\n       Charles Norman Wiltse Keckler, of Virginia, to be a Member\n     of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation\n     for a term expiring July 13, 2016.\n\n                       legal services corporation\n\n       Gloria Valencia-Weber, of New Mexico, to be a Member of the\n     Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation for a\n     term expiring July 13, 2017.\n       John Gerson Levi, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Board\n     of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation for a term\n     expiring July 13, 2017.\n       Robert James Grey, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member of the\n     Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation for a\n     term expiring July 13, 2017.\n\n                     election assistance commission\n\n       Thomas Hicks, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Election\n     Assistance Commission for a term expiring December 12, 2017.\n       Matthew Vincent Masterson, of Ohio, to be a Member of the\n     Election Assistance Commission for a term expiring December\n     12, 2017.\n       Christy A. McCormick, of Virginia, to be a Member of the\n     Election Assistance Commission for a term expiring December\n     12, 2015.\n\n                         department of justice\n\n       David Rivera, of Tennessee, to be United States Attorney\n     for the Middle District of Tennessee for the term of four\n     years.\n       Arthur Lee Bentley III, of Florida, to be United States\n     Attorney for the Middle District of Florida for the term of\n     four years.\n\n                             united nations\n\n       Isobel Coleman, of New York, to be Representative of the\n     United States of America to the United Nations for U.N.\n     Management and Reform, with the rank of Ambassador.\n       Isobel Coleman, of New York, as an Alternate Representative\n     of the United States of America to the Sessions of the\n     General Assembly of the United Nations during her tenure of\n     service as Representative of the United States of America to\n     the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform.\n\n           united states agency for international development\n\n       Paige Eve Alexander, of Virginia, to be an Assistant\n     Administrator of the United States Agency for International\n     Development.\n\n                         department of defense\n\n       David J. Berteau, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary\n     of Defense.\n       Robert M. Scher, of the District of Columbia, to be an\n     Assistant Secretary of Defense.\n\n                          department of state\n\n       Jess Lippincott Baily, of Ohio, a Career Member of the\n     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be\n     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United\n     States of America to the Republic of Macedonia.\n       Robert Francis Cekuta, of New York, a Career Member of the\n     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be\n     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United\n     States of America to the Republic of Azerbaijan.\n       Margaret Ann Uyehara, of Ohio, a Career Member of the\n     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be\n     Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United\n     States of America to Montenegro.\n       Richard M. Mills, Jr., of Texas, a Career Member of the\n     Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador\n     Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United\n\n[[Page S6904]]\n\n     States of America to the Republic of Armenia.\n\n                   FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION\n\n       Michael P. O'Rielly, of New York, to be a Member of the\n     Federal Communications Commission for a term of five years\n     from July 1, 2014.\n\n                       LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION\n\n       Joseph Pius Pietrzyk, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Board\n     of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation for a term\n     expiring July 13, 2017.\n       Laurie I. Mikva, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Board\n     of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation for a term\n     expiring July 13, 2016.\n       Victor B. Maddox, of Kentucky, to be a Member of the Board\n     of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation for a term\n     expiring July 13, 2016.\n\n            morris k. udall and stewart l. udall foundation\n\n       James L. Huffman, of Oregon, to be a Member of the Board of\n     Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall\n     Foundation for a term expiring October 6, 2020.\n\n  Mr. PRYOR. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the action of\nthe Senate with respect to discharging PN Nos. 2065, 1279, 1280, and\n1916 from the HELP and EPW Committees be vitiated.\n  For the information of the Senate, these nominations were on the\ncalendar on the privileged nominations list.\n  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.\n\n                          Rosekind Nomination\n\n  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President. I support the nomination of Dr. Mark\nRosekind to be the next administrator of the National Highway Traffic\nSafety Administration, NHTSA.\n  Dr. Rosekind has served as a member of the National Traffic Safety\nBoard, NTSB since 2009. His expertise is in developing countermeasures\nfor fatigue in order to enhance vehicle safety. He also previously\nserved at NASA for a number of years, and founded a technology company\naimed at creating software that helps to reduce the role of fatigue in\ntraffic incidents.\n  While I have some reservations about his somewhat limited management\nexperience, given the size of the workforce he has been nominated to\nlead, I believe Dr. Rosekind's experience and expertise will enable him\nto approach this agency that many perceive to be in crisis with an eye\ntoward making it more agile and technologically capable. I believe that\nNHTSA must have a leader who can hit the ground running, and Dr.\nRosekind's extensive work in the safety area gives me confidence that\nhe will be the right leader at this time.\n  As I stated at Dr. Rosekind's nomination hearing last week, the\nstring of auto recalls this year has been cause for grave concern. We\nare on pace to have the all-time worst year for auto recalls in U.S.\nhistory, with about 60 million vehicles being subject to recalls so\nfar. In many of these cases, there are legitimate questions about\nwhether NHTSA should have identified the defective products earlier and\ncommunicated more effectively with the public.\n  Since the start of the year, I have called on President Obama to\nnominate a qualified individual to lead NHTSA without delay because\ninaction sends a terrible signal to the regulated community and the\nAmerican people about automobile safety and oversight.\n  It took 343 days for President Obama to nominate a qualified\nindividual to lead NHTSA, at a time when the Nation faced a year of\nrecord recalls, from the GM ignition switch recalls that began in\nFebruary to the recalls involving defective Takata air bags. In fact,\nPresident Obama did not formally nominate Dr. Rosekind until the\nevening before the Commerce Committee was to hold a hearing regarding\nthese defective Takata air bags.\n  By contrast, it has taken only 22 days for the Senate to receive the\nnomination, work through regular order at the Commerce Committee to\nhold a hearing and a markup for Dr. Rosekind's nomination, and today,\nto confirm his nomination by the full Senate. I believe the Senate's\naction today sends the clear signal that Senators on both sides of the\naisle care very deeply about improving auto safety.\n  I look forward to working with Dr. Rosekind as NHTSA continues to\nwork through the issues underlying the record number of recalls this\nyear. I particularly look forward to learning the conclusions of the\ntop-to-bottom review of NHTSA currently being conducted by the Obama\nadministration, which Dr. Rosekind has promised to share publicly. Dr.\nRosekind has a challenging road ahead of him, and the Commerce\nCommittee will continue to pursue rigorous oversight of NHTSA for the\nforeseeable future, as well as possible solutions to better address\nsome of the lapses that have occurred both at NHTSA and with certain\nauto manufacturers and parts suppliers.\n  I thank the Presiding Officer, and I yield the floor and suggest the\nabsence of a quorum.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2014-12-16-pt1-PgS6903-3"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 43.83962391875684, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}