[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15166]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 NOMINATION OF JOHN E. JONES III, OF PENNSYLVANIA, TO BE UNITED STATES 
         DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 
minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote on Executive 
Calendar No. 828, which the clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       John E. Jones, III, of Pennsylvania to be United States 
     District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.
  Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, I will yield time on this side, if the 
distinguished Republican leader wants to yield the time on his side.
  Madam President, I withhold that.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Pennsylvania.
  Mr. SPECTER. Madam President, John E. Jones III is a very 
distinguished lawyer. I have known him personally for 15 years. He 
comes from Pottsville, PA. He had an outstanding practice. He has an 
exemplary academic record. He served as chairman of a very important 
agency, the Liquor Control Board of Pennsylvania, which has quasi-
judicial functions.
  Joy Flowers Conti was just voted on.
  I thank the chairman, Senator Leahy, for moving these two judges. I 
urge him to follow the calendar, which has next in line D. Brooks 
Smith, who is the present judge of the Western District of Pennsylvania 
and who has been approved by the committee for the Court of Appeals for 
the Third Circuit.
  We are taking up another judge tomorrow.
  I trust that Judge Smith will be up for confirmation.
  I yield the remainder of my time.
  Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, in my earlier statement, I praised the 
distinguished senior Senator from Pennsylvania for working hard to get 
through the judges on the Western District of Pennsylvania.
  For year, after year, after year, after year, after year, after year, 
a Republican hold blocked any consideration of the nominations by 
President Clinton for those same seats. But thanks to the distinguished 
senior Senator from Pennsylvania, we have been able to move forward 
quickly.
  This, incidentally, will be the 63rd judge confirmed by the Senate 
since the change in majority about this time last year.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the nomination of John E. Jones III, of Pennsylvania, to be 
United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania?
  Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There is a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. NICKLES. I announce that the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. 
Helms), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. Hutchinson), the Senator from 
Ohio (Mr. DeWine), and the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. McConnell) are 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 96, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 196 Ex.]

                                YEAS--96

     Akaka
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Carnahan
     Carper
     Chafee
     Cleland
     Clinton
     Cochran
     Collins
     Conrad
     Corzine
     Craig
     Crapo
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham
     Gramm
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     McCain
     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
     Thompson
     Thurmond
     Torricelli
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--4

     DeWine
     Helms
     Hutchinson
     McConnell
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the President will 
be notified of the Senate's action.

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