For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 3, 2003

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Gordon H. Mansfield, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, vice Leo S. Mackay, Jr., resigned.

Gene E. K. Pratter, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, vice William H. Yohn, Jr., retiring.

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