[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Pages 13811-13812]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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NOMINATION OF DIANE S. SYKES TO BE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE 
                       SEVENTH CIRCUIT--Continued

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the Senate will now 
go into executive session, and the clerk will report the nomination.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Diane S. Sykes, of 
Wisconsin, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit.
  Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader is recognized.
  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, for the information of colleagues, after 
this vote, the next vote will be after the recess on July 6, sometime 
after 2:15 p.m.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the nomination of Diane S. Sykes, of Wisconsin, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit? The yeas and nays have 
been ordered. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I announce that the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Lugar) 
and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Nickles) are necessarily absent.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) 
is necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 27, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 152 Ex.]

                                YEAS--70

     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Breaux
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Byrd
     Campbell
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Fitzgerald
     Frist
     Graham (FL)
     Graham (SC)
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Hatch
     Hollings
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lincoln
     Lott
     McCain
     McConnell
     Miller
     Murkowski
     Nelson (NE)
     Pryor
     Roberts
     Rockefeller
     Santorum
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Voinovich
     Warner

                                NAYS--27

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Boxer
     Clinton
     Corzine
     Daschle
     Dayton
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Feinstein
     Harkin
     Inouye

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     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Mikulski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Reed
     Reid
     Sarbanes
     Stabenow
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Kerry
     Lugar
     Nickles
  The nomination was confirmed.

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