[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 92 (Thursday, June 20, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6584-S6585]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION
NOMINATION OF ALAN GREENSPAN, OF NEW YORK, TO BE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD 
               OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will now 
return to executive session to consider executive calendar No. 517, 
which the clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Alan Greenspan, of New 
York, to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System.
  The Senate continued with the consideration of the nomination.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the nomination of Alan Greenspan, of New York, to be 
Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System?
  Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on the 
nomination.

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  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to 
be a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Minnesota [Mr. Grams] 
is necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Arkansas [Mr. Bumpers] is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Snowe). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 91, nays 7, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 165 Ex.]

                                YEAS--91

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Bradley
     Breaux
     Brown
     Bryan
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Coats
     Cochran
     Cohen
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Exon
     Faircloth
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frahm
     Frist
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hatch
     Hatfield
     Heflin
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnston
     Kassebaum
     Kempthorne
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Nunn
     Pell
     Pressler
     Pryor
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Shelby
     Simon
     Simpson
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--7

     Conrad
     Dorgan
     Feingold
     Harkin
     Kerrey
     Reid
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Bumpers
     Grams
       
  The nomination was confirmed.
  Mrs. HUTCHISON. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote and to 
lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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