[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 28, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S85]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



     Vote on Nominations of Barry G. Silverman and Richard W. Story

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the confirmations, en bloc, 
of Barry G. Silverman, of Arizona, to be a circuit judge of the ninth 
circuit, and Richard W. Story, of Georgia, to be a district judge for 
the Northern District of Georgia.
  The nominations were confirmed.
  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I am delighted that we have finally broken 
the logjam on Ninth Circuit vacancies. Judge Silverman is the first 
judge to be confirmed to this Court in two years. In the meantime, the 
Court has been suffering from vacancies amounting to more than one-
third of the authorized judgeships for the court and had to cancel over 
600 arguments last year.
  I congratulate Judge Silverman and his family and thank Senator Kyl 
for his cooperation in this effort. I hope that we will move forward 
promptly to consider the nominations of Judge Richard Paez, Professor 
William Fletcher, Margaret McKeown and the others needed to staff this 
important court.

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