For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
August 3, 2001

Nominations Sent to the Senate

     Susan Schmidt Bies, of Tennessee, to be Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of fourteen years from February 1, 1998, vice Susan Meredith Phillips, resigned.

     Jay S. Bybee, of Nevada, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice Randolph D. Moss, resigned.

     B. John Williams, Jr., of Virginia, to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel in the Department of the Treasury, vice Stuart L. Brown, resigned.

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