Senate clears dozens of nominations

The Senate confirmed dozens of noncontroversial nominations through a unanimous consent agreement on Tuesday night.

{mosads}That comes as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is working on a deal to wrap up legislative business for the year.

Reid has kept the Senate in session a week longer than he had originally wanted, mostly to clear more of President Obama’s executive and judicial nominations before Republicans take control of the upper chamber next year.

Reid was able to get agreement to confirm a handful of other nominations he filed cloture on over the weekend.

A list of those confirmed by voice-vote follows:

– Colette Honorable to be a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

– Estevan López to be commissioner of Reclamation at the Department of Interior

– Marcus Jadotte to be assistant secretary of the Department of Commerce

– Jonathan Stivers to be assistant administrator of USAID

– Chris Smith to be assistant secretary of the Department of Energy 

A list of those confirmed en bloc follows:

– Karen Kornbluh to be a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors

– Richard J. Engler to be a member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

– Manuel H. Ehrlich Jr. to be a member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

– Nicholas J. Rasmussen to be director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

– Mark E. Lopes to be United States executive director of the Inter-American Development Bank

– Leigh A. Bradley to be general counsel, Department of Veterans Affairs

– Mark R. Rosekind to be administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

– Helen Tierney to be chief financial officer, Department of Veterans Affairs

– Charles P. Rose to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation

– Mark Thomas Nethery to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation

– Anne J. Udall to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation

– Camilla C. Feibelman to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation

– Martha L. Minow to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation

– Charles Norman Wiltse Keckler to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation

– Gloria Valencia-Weber to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation

– John Gerson Levi to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation

– Robert James Grey Jr. to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation

– Thomas Hicks to be a member of the Election Assistance Commission

– Matthew Vincent Masterson to be a member of the Election Assistance Commission

– Christy A. McCormick to be a member of the Election Assistance Commission 

– Isobel Coleman to be representative of the United States of America to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform

– Isobel Coleman to be an alternate representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during her tenure of service as representative of the United States of America to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform

– Paige Eve Alexander to be an assistant administrator of the United States Agency for International Development

– Robert M. Scher to be an assistant secretary of Defense

– David J. Berteau to be an assistant secretary of Defense

– Jess Lippincott Baily to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Macedonia

– Robert Francis Cekuta to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Azerbaijan

– Margaret Ann Uyehara to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Montenegro

– Richard M. Mills Jr. to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Armenia

– Michael P. O’Rielly to be a member of the Federal Communications Commission

– Joseph Pius Pietrzyk to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation

– Laurie I. Mikva to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation

– Victor B. Maddox to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation

– James L. Huffman to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation

– Arthur Lee Bentley III to be United States attorney for the Middle District of Florida

– David Rivera to be United States attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee

– James Cole Jr. to be general counsel, Department of Education