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                              NOMINATIONS

  Executive nominations received by the Senate February 26, 2007:


                         DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

       S. WARD CASSCELLS, OF TEXAS, TO BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY 
     OF DEFENSE, VICE WILLIAM WINKENWERDER, JR.
       CLAUDE M. KICKLIGHTER, OF GEORGIA, TO BE INSPECTOR GENERAL, 
     DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, VICE JOSEPH E. SCHMITZ, RESIGNED.


                          DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

       WILLIAM CHARLES OSTENDORFF, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE PRINCIPAL 
     DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY 
     ADMINISTRATION, VICE JERALD S. PAUL, RESIGNED.


                            IN THE AIR FORCE

       THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED 
     STATES AIR FORCE TO THE GRADE INDICATED WHILE ASSIGNED TO A 
     POSITION OF IMPORTANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY UNDER TITLE 10, 
     U.S.C., SECTION 601:

                             To be general

LT. GEN. VICTOR E. RENUART, JR., 0000
       THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICER FOR APPOINTMENT IN THE UNITED 
     STATES AIR FORCE TO THE GRADE INDICATED UNDER TITLE 10, 
     U.S.C., SECTION 624:

                        To be brigadier general

COL. THOMAS J. MASIELLO, 0000

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