Senate clears executive nominations

The Senate confirmed several of President Obama’s executive nominations on Thursday.

{mosads}All of the nominees were confirmed by voice-vote, as the last legislative action the Senate will take in more than a month.

Lawmakers are completing business Thursday in order to leave town to campaign for midterm elections. 

A list of the nominations that were confirmed follows:

– Mark William Lippert to be U.S. ambassador to Korea.

– Adam Scheinman to be special representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation.

– Kevin O’Malley to be U.S. ambassador to Ireland.

– Bathsheba Nell Crocker to be an assistant secretary of the State Department on International Organization Affairs.

– Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy.

– Robert Holleyman to be Deputy U.S. Trade Representative.

– Eric Rosenbach to be an assistant secretary of the Department of Defense.

– D. Nathan Sheets to be an under secretary of the Treasury Department.

– Charles Fulghum to be chief financial officer of the Department of Homeland Security.

– Alfonso Lenhardt to be deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.