Comings and Goings

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C O M I N G S

President Clinton has picked John Spotila to be administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. Spotila has been general counsel at the Small Business Administration since 1993. Spotila replaces Sally Katzen, who left her position early this year to become deputy director of the National Economic Council.

Also at OMB, President Clinton has given a recess appointment to G. Edward DeSeve, acting deputy director for management. DeSeve's nomination failed to make it to the Senate floor for a vote, but Clinton will renominate DeSeve next year.

John C. Truesdale also received a recess appointment as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Truesdale, whose federal career has spanned 47 years, retired in 1996, but was nominated as chairman this October. He also served as chairman during the Carter Administration and from Dec. 1994 to Jan. 1996.

Additional recess appointments went last week to Treasury officials John D. Hawke Jr. as Comptroller of the Currency, Timothy F. Geithner as undersecretary for international affairs and Edwin M. Truman as assistant secretary for international affairs.

Jeff Sumberg, director of field services at the American Federation of Government Employees, is moving to the Office of Personnel Management. Sumberg will be heading up OPM's Center for Partnership and Labor-Management Relations.

Larry Finfer has officially taken the top communications post at the Bureau of Land Management. Finfer had been serving as acting assistant director for communications since May, before which he was a program analyst in the office of policy analysis at the Interior Department.

G O I N G S

Senior foreign trade statistician Milton Kaufman is retiring from the Census Bureau after 64 years of continuous service. He joined the Works Progress Administration in 1933. In 1942, he moved on to the Census Bureau.

Carrie Hyun has left her post as communications director of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board to become deputy chief of staff at the Transportation Department. Hyun worked at DOT before as associate director of media relations.