For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 27, 2006

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Robert Anthony Bradtke, of Maryland, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Croatia.

Robert J. Portman, of Ohio, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, vice Joshua B. Bolten.

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