The Senate Finance Committee holds a hearing today on these tax nominations

• Ed Eck, Dean of the University of Montana School of Law, to be a Member of the IRS Oversight Board
• Richard T. Morrison, Acting Assistant Attorney General (Tax Division), U.S. Department of Justice, to be a Judge of the U.S. Tax Court
• David D. Gustafson, to be a Judge of the U.S. Tax Court
• Elizabeth Crewson Paris, Tax Counsel, Senate Finance Committee, to be a Judge of the U.S. Tax Court
• Eric M. Thorson, Inspector General. U.S. Small Business Administration, to be Inspector General, U.S. Department of Treasury

For more, see the press release.

Update:  The committee approved the nominations, which now move to the full Senate,