[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 146 (Monday, October 27, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S11234]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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 NOMINATION OF ALGENON L. MARBLEY, OF OHIO, TO BE U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE 
                   FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the hour of 5 p.m. 
having arrived, the Senate will now go into executive session and 
proceed to vote on the nomination of Algenon L. Marbley, of Ohio, to be 
U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio.
  The clerk will report.

       The bill clerk read the nomination of Algenon L. Marbley, 
     of Ohio, to be a United States District Judge for the 
     Southern District of Ohio.

  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is 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 New York [Mr. D'Amato], 
the Senator from North Carolina [Mr. Faircloth], the Senator from 
Delaware [Mr. Roth], and the Senator from Virginia [Mr. Warner] are 
necessarily absent.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Delaware [Mr. Biden], the 
Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy], the Senator from New Jersey 
[Mr. Lautenberg], the Senator from Maryland [Ms. Mikulski], and the 
Senator from Oregon [Mr. Wyden] are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from New 
Jersey [Mr. Lautenberg] would vote ``aye.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 91, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 279 Ex.]

                                YEAS--91

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Baucus
     Bennett
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Coats
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kempthorne
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Wellstone

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Biden
     D'Amato
     Faircloth
     Kennedy
     Lautenberg
     Mikulski
     Roth
     Warner
     Wyden
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to 
reconsider is laid upon the table, and the President will be notified 
of the Senate's action.

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