[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 66 (Wednesday, May 24, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S4365]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   NOMINATION OF GERARD E. LYNCH, OF NEW YORK, TO BE A UNITED STATES 
          DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the next nomination.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Gerard E. Lynch, of New 
York, to be a United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
New York.
  Mr. BURNS. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination 
of Gerard E. Lynch, of New York, to be a United States District Judge 
for the Southern District of New York? The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden) is 
necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 63, nays 36, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 110 Ex.]

                                YEAS--63

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Bingaman
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Byrd
     Chafee, L.
     Cleland
     Collins
     Conrad
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Fitzgerald
     Gorton
     Graham
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lugar
     Mikulski
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Reed
     Reid
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Shelby
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                                NAYS--36

     Abraham
     Allard
     Ashcroft
     Bond
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Cochran
     Coverdell
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Enzi
     Frist
     Gramm
     Grams
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kyl
     Lott
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Roberts
     Santorum
     Sessions
     Smith (NH)
     Thomas

                             NOT VOTING--1

       
     Biden
       
  The nomination was confirmed.

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