[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 12122-12123]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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  NOMINATION OF VIRGINIA E. HOPKINS TO BE UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will now proceed with executive 
session to consider Executive Calendar No. 563, which the clerk will 
report.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Virginia E. Hopkins, of 
Alabama, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District 
of Alabama.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. There will be 2 minutes of debate equally 
divided on the nomination.
  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that each of the 
next three votes be 10 minutes so we can return to the Defense bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senator from Utah.
  Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I am prepared to yield back all of my time 
on the three judges. I ask unanimous consent that all time be yielded 
back.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. HATCH. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination 
of Virginia E. Hopkins, of Alabama, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of Alabama? The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. REID. I announce that the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Jeffords) and 
the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?

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  The result was announced--yeas 98, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Ex.]

                                YEAS--98

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

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Jeffords
     Kerry
       
  The nomination was confirmed.

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