[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 37 (Friday, March 27, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2693-S2694]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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 NOMINATION OF M. MARGARET McKEOWN, OF WASHINGTON, TO BE UNITED STATES 
                  CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

  The PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of M. Margaret McKeown, of 
Washington, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.
  The PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE. The question is, Will the Senate advise 
and consent to the nomination of M. Margaret McKeown to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit?
  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. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Bennett), 
the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Enzi), the Senator from North Carolina 
(Mr. Faircloth), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Gramm), the Senator from 
Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Helms), the 
Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Hutchinson), and the Senator from Oklahoma 
(Mr. Inhofe) are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah 
(Mr. Hatch) would vote ``yea.''
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Maine (Mr. Kerry) is 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sessions). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 80, nays 11, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 48 Ex.]

                                YEAS--80

     Abraham
     Akaka
     Baucus
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Frist
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Grams
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kempthorne
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lott
     Lugar
     Mack
     McCain
     Mikulski
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Sarbanes
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Wellstone
     Wyden

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                                NAYS--11

     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Coats
     DeWine
     Grassley
     Kyl
     McConnell
     Nickles
     Santorum
     Smith (NH)
     Warner

                             NOT VOTING--9

     Bennett
     Enzi
     Faircloth
     Gramm
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Inhofe
     Kerry
  The nomination was confirmed.

  

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