[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 24084]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




NOMINATION OF SUSAN BIEKE NEILSON TO BE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR 
                           THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the next nomination.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Susan Bieke Neilson, of 
Michigan, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit.
  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that this vote be 
10 minutes, with a 5-minute extra.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays have not yet been ordered.
  Mr. SPECTER. 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.
  Mr. LOTT. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that this next vote 
be taken on a voice vote.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, Senator Leahy 
is not on the floor; therefore, we would have to object.
  Mr. LOTT. I thank the Chair.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is time yielded back? If so, the question is, 
Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Susan Bieke 
Neilson to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit? The 
yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. 
Corzine), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), and the Senator from 
West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
desiring to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 97, nays 0, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 277 Ex.]

                                YEAS--97

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Biden
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Burr
     Byrd
     Cantwell
     Carper
     Chafee
     Chambliss
     Clinton
     Coburn
     Cochran
     Coleman
     Collins
     Conrad
     Cornyn
     Craig
     Crapo
     Dayton
     DeMint
     DeWine
     Dodd
     Dole
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durbin
     Ensign
     Enzi
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Frist
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Hagel
     Harkin
     Hatch
     Hutchison
     Inhofe
     Isakson
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McCain
     McConnell
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Nelson (FL)
     Nelson (NE)
     Obama
     Pryor
     Reed
     Reid
     Roberts
     Salazar
     Santorum
     Sarbanes
     Schumer
     Sessions
     Shelby
     Smith
     Snowe
     Specter
     Stabenow
     Stevens
     Sununu
     Talent
     Thomas
     Thune
     Vitter
     Voinovich
     Warner
     Wyden

                             NOT VOTING--3

     Corzine
     Inouye
     Rockefeller
  The nomination was confirmed.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The President is notified of the Senate's 
action.

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