For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 26, 2001

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Claude A. Allen, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, vice Kevin L. Thurm, resigned.

Lou Gallegos, of New Mexico, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, vice Paul W. Fiddick, resigned.

Timothy J. Muris, of Virginia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner for the unexpired term of seven years from September 26, 1994, vice Robert Pitofsky, resigned.

Lee Sarah Liberman Otis, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Energy, vice Mary Anne Sullivan, resigned.

Pat Pizzella, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor, vice Patricia Watkins Lattimore.

Mary Kirtley Waters, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, vice Andrew C. Fish, resigned.

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