[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2095]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          LEGISLATIVE SESSION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate will now return to legislative 
session.
  Mr. WARNER. Will the Senator yield for a moment?
  Mr. FRIST. Yes.
  Mr. WARNER. I thank the majority leader for working with the minority 
leader to get these three nominations confirmed. Two are under the 
category of the Department of Defense, and the third is Energy. 
Nevertheless, the Energy nominee works carefully with the Committee on 
Armed Services, which makes up 60 percent of the Department of Energy's 
budget. Together with my colleague, Senator Levin, we have worked very 
hard, and this is probably one of the shortest periods in which we have 
been able to completely go through the advice and consent process very 
carefully, meticulously, but in a very timely fashion. I will have 
further remarks about these nominations, but the Department is very 
much in need of these key personnel, particularly the Under Secretary 
of the Army, a former member of Congress.
  I thank the leader for his cooperation in insisting that we get these 
nominations done in a timely manner, and I thank the staff. There is a 
lot of staff work that went into this effort.

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