[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 8 (Thursday, February 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 3, 1994]
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   NOMINATION OF WILLIAM J. PERRY, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE SECRETARY OF 
                                DEFENSE

  Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. President, the vote about to occur on the Perry 
nomination will be the last vote today.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order the Senate will now 
vote on the confirmation of William Perry to be Secretary of Defense.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination 
of William J. Perry, of California, to be Secretary of Defense?
  On this question, the yeas and nays have been ordered, and the clerk 
will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. SIMPSON. I announce that the Senator from Arizona [Mr. McCain], 
the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. Nickles], and the Senator from Alaska 
[Mr. Stevens] are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
who desire to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 97, nays 0, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 23 Ex.]

                                YEAS--97

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boren
     Boxer
     Bradley
     Breaux
     Brown
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Cohen
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Danforth
     Daschle
     DeConcini
     Dodd
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durenberger
     Exon
     Faircloth
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hatfield
     Heflin
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnston
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     Mathews
     McConnell
     Metzenbaum
     Mikulski
     Mitchell
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nunn
     Packwood
     Pell
     Pressler
     Pryor
     Reid
     Riegle
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Sarbanes
     Sasser
     Shelby
     Simon
     Simpson
     Smith
     Specter
     Thurmond
     Wallop
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wofford

                             NOT VOTING--3

     McCain
     Nickles
     Stevens
  So the nominaion was confirmed.
  Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which 
the nomination was confirmed.
  Mr. THURMOND. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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