[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 43 (Wednesday, April 17, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2757-S2758]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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   NOMINATION OF LANCE M. AFRICK, OF LOUISIANA, TO BE UNITED STATES 
          DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the 
Senate will now go into executive session and proceed to vote on 
Executive Calendar No. 760, which the clerk will report.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Lance M. Africk, of 
Louisiana, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District 
of Louisiana.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The yeas and nays have been 
ordered.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd) 
and the Senator from Minnesota (Mr. Dayton) are necessarily absent.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Minnesota (Mr. Dayton) would vote ``aye.''
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. 
Thompson) is necessarily absent.
  The result was announced--yeas 97, nays 0, as follows:

                       (Rollcall Vote No. 69 Ex.)

                                YEAS--97

     Akaka
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Carnahan
     Carper
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Clinton
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel

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     Harkin
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hollings
     Hutchinson
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Miller
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith (NH)
     Smith (OR)
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Thomas
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Byrd
     Dayton
     Thompson
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Baucus). The motion to reconsider is laid 
upon the table.

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