Inaprubahan ng Commission on Appointment (CA) ang apat na bagong Cabinet member at apat na ambassador kahapon.
Walang kahirap-hirap na lumusot sa makapangyarihang CA sina Secretary Rodolfo Salalima ng Department of Information and Communications Technology; Secretary Wanda Corazon Tulfo-Teo ng Department of Tourism; Secretary Fortunato T. Dela Pena ng Department of Science and Technology; at Secretary Ernesto Pernia ng Department of Socio-Economic Planning and National Economic Development Authority.
Pumasa rin sina James Lao bilang ambassador sa Brunei Darussalam, Jose C. Laurel sa Japan, Uriel Norman Robles Garibay sa Kenya, Jose Santiago Sta. Romana sa South Korea at Mongolia, at Shirley Ho-Vicario sa Nigeria. (Leonel M. Abasola)
