For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 31, 2006

Nominations Sent to the Senate

W. Ralph Basham, of Virginia, to be Commissioner of Customs, Department of Homeland Security, vice Robert C. Bonner, resigned.

Paul DeCamp, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, vice Tammy Dee McCutchen, resigned.

Edward P. Lazear, of California, to be a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, vice Ben S. Bernanke.

Jeffrey L. Sedgwick, of Massachusetts, to be Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, vice Lawrence A. Greenfeld, resigned.

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