[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 9 (Monday, January 25, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Pages S183-S186]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


          Honoring Senator Arlen Specter on His 10,000th Vote

  Mr. REID. Madam President, in just a few minutes, as soon as I finish 
my remarks, we will move to vote on a judge. This will be the 10,000th 
vote of Arlen Specter. I congratulate our distinguished colleague, 
Senator Specter, as he is about to cast his 10,000th vote as a Senator. 
He is only the 30th Senator to reach this number of five digits.
  I have known Senator Specter for more than a quarter of a century. I 
have read his book. The book on his life is a remarkably impressive 
travel through his political career. He was a crime fighter as a 
district attorney. As far as lawyers go, the Specter genes are pretty 
good. The largest judgment in the history of the State of Nevada was a 
judgment his son received. His son is a prominent trial lawyer. Nevada 
knows the Specter name from more than Arlen.
  Arlen has always been a man of honor and integrity and a tremendous 
public servant. The State of Pennsylvania, of course, is home to some 
of our Nation's most significant political history--the Declaration of 
Independence and the Constitution were drafted in Senator Specter's 
hometown of Philadelphia. No one has served that State longer than 
Senator Specter.
  I congratulate my friend Arlen Specter on making this historic 
milestone. It will make Pennsylvania proud. No one with whom I have 
served in the Senate has a better legal mind than Arlen Specter. We 
always look to him when there is a complex legal issue to give one of 
his renown statements.
  I am sorry to hold up everybody, but I wanted this night not to go 
forward without saying something about our friend, Arlen Specter.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the nomination of Rosanna Malouf Peterson, of Washington, to 
be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington?
  Mr. REID. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. 
Byrd), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr.

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Inouye), the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. Klobuchar), and the Senator 
from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. KYL. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Utah (Mr. Bennett), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Brownback), the 
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Texas (Mrs. 
Hutchison), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), the Senator from 
Alaska (Ms. Murkowski), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Roberts).
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Merkley). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 89, nays 0, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 3 Ex.]

                                YEAS--89

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Barrasso
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Begich
     Bennet
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Brown
     Bunning
     Burris
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Chambliss
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corker
     Cornyn
     Crapo
     DeMint
     Dodd
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Franken
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagan
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Isakson
     Johanns
     Johnson
     Kaufman
     Kerry
     Kirk
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     LeMieux
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lugar
     McCain
     McCaskill
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Merkley
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (NE)
     Nelson (FL)
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Risch
     Rockefeller
     Sanders
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shaheen
     Shelby
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Tester
     Thune
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Webb
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bennett
     Brownback
     Burr
     Byrd
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Klobuchar
     Murkowski
     Roberts
     Warner
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to 
reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The President 
shall be immediately notified of the Senate's action.

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