For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 10, 2005

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Duane Acklie, of Nebraska, to be An Alternate Representative Of the United States of America to the Sixtieth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Goli Ameri, of Oregon, to be a Representative of the United States of America to the Sixtieth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Robert C. Cresanti, of Texas, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, vice Phillip Bond, resigned.

Uttam Dhillon, of California, to be Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security. (New Position)

Leo Maury Gordon, of New Jersey, to be a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade, vice Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr., retired.

Stephen C. King, of New York, to be a Member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States for the term expiring September 30, 2008, vice Jeremy H. G. Ibrahim, term expired.

Robert C. O'Brien, of California, to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the Sixtieth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Donald M. Payne, of New Jersey, to be a Representative of the United States of America to the Sixtieth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Edward Randall Royce, of California, to be a Representative of the United States of America to the Sixtieth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

David M. Spooner, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, vice James J. Jochum, resigned.

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