For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 16, 2001

Nominations Sent to the Senate

     Christopher Bancroft Burnham, of Connecticut, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of State, vice Bert T. Edwards.

     Conrad Lautenbacher, Jr., of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, vice D. James Baker, resigned.

     Constance Berry Newman, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, vice Vivian Lowery Derryck, resigned.

     R. David Paulison, of Florida, to be Administrator of the United States Fire Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, vice Carrye Burley Brown.

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