Obama’s 15 new agency and board appointments
By APSaturday, March 27, 2010
Obama’s new agency and board appointments
President Barack Obama announced his intention on Saturday to make 15 recess appointments to federal boards and agencies, circumventing the usual process of Senate confirmation. Those 15 nominees are:
— Jeffrey Goldstein, undersecretary for domestic finance at the Treasury Department
— Michael Mundaca, assistant secretary for tax policy at the Treasury Department
— Eric Hirschhorn, undersecretary of commerce for export administration and head of the Bureau of Industry and Security at the Commerce Department
— Michael Punke, deputy trade representative — Geneva, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
— Francisco Sanchez, undersecretary for international trade, Commerce Department
— Islam Siddiqui, chief agricultural negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
— Alan Bersin, commissioner of U.S. customs and border protection, Department of Homeland Security
— Jill Long Thompson, member of the Farm Credit Administration Board
— Rafael Borras, undersecretary for management, Department of Homeland Security
— Craig Becker, member of the National Labor Relations Board
— Mark Pearce, member of the National Labor Relations Board
— Jacqueline Berrien, chairwoman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
— Chai Feldblum, commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
— Victoria Lipnic, commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
— P. David Lopez, general counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
