[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 131 (Tuesday, November 16, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Pages S11356-S11357]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                                 Trade

  My colleague from South Carolina has talked about trade. I just got 
off the telephone talking with some workers. They are concerned about 
their jobs going to China.
  We just passed a bill in Congress that continues to provide 
incentives for businesses to move their jobs to China. I think job one 
for us as we convene in a new Congress is to start deciding we need to 
stop the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs. We especially 
ought to decide that in the Tax Code of this country we ought not 
reward companies that move American jobs overseas. That is an outrage. 
There is no one in Congress who ought to be voting for and supporting 
the rewarding of companies that move their American jobs elsewhere.
  I will come to the floor of the Senate tomorrow to talk more about 
what is happening with our manufacturing base that I think injures this 
country in an irrevocable way.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Montana.
  Mr. BURNS. Thank you, Mr. President. I want to thank my colleague

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from North Dakota for yielding. It will not take me long to make this 
statement.
  (The remarks of Mr. Burns pertaining to the introduction of S. 2987 
are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills 
and Joint Resolutions.'')
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the vote now occurs 
on the nomination.
  Mr. BURNS. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination 
of Francis J. Harvey, of California, to be Secretary of the Army? On 
this question, the yeas and nays have been ordered, and the clerk will 
call the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. The following Members were necessarily absent from 
today's session of the Senate:
  The Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Santorum).
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden) and 
the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Breaux) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 85, nays 12, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 212 Ex.]

                                YEAS--85

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Clinton
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     Dayton
     DeWine
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Edwards
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (FL)
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     McConnell
     Miller
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Nickles
     Pryor
     Reid
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wyden

                                NAYS--12

     Akaka
     Carper
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dodd
     Durbin
     Kennedy
     Lautenberg
     Levin
     Mikulski
     Reed
     Stabenow

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Biden
     Breaux
     Santorum
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the President will 
be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
  Mr. WARNER. I move to reconsider the vote and I move to lay that 
motion on the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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