[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Pages 4036-4037]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EXECUTIVE SESSION

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NOMINATION OF DENNIS R. SPURGEON TO BE AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF ENERGY

  Mr. BURNS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that at 5:15, the 
Senate proceed to executive session and an immediate vote on the 
confirmation of Executive Calendar No. 575, with no intervening action 
or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of Dennis R. 
Spurgeon, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy.
  Mr. BURNS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that it be in order 
at this time to ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is in order to request 
the yeas and nays at this time.
  Mr. BURNS. Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There is a 
sufficient second, and the yeas and nays are ordered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Will the Senate advise and 
consent to the nomination of Dennis R. Spurgeon, of Florida, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Energy? On this question, the yeas and nays have 
been ordered, and the clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. McCONNELL. The following Senators were necessarily absent: the 
Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe), 
and the Senator from Alaska (Ms. Murkowski).
  Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch) 
would have voted ``yea.''
  Mr. DURBIN. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. Biden), 
the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Byrd), the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. 
Inouye), the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Kerry), the Senator from 
Louisiana (Ms. Landrieu), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), 
the Senator from Maryland (Ms. Mikulski), the Senator from Florida (Mr. 
Nelson), and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are 
necessarily absent.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. DeMint). Are there any other Senators in 
the Chamber desiring to vote?

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  The result was announced--yeas 88, nays 0, as follows:

                       [Rollcall Vote No. 76 Ex.]

                               YEAS -- 88

     Akaka
     Alexander
     Allard
     Allen
     Baucus
     Bayh
     Bennett
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boxer
     Brownback
     Bunning
     Burns
     Burr
     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
     Hutchison
     Isakson
     Jeffords
     Johnson
     Kennedy
     Kohl
     Kyl
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lincoln
     Lott
     Lugar
     Martinez
     McCain
     McConnell
     Menendez
     Murray
     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 -- 12

     Biden
     Byrd
     Hatch
     Inhofe
     Inouye
     Kerry
     Landrieu
     Lautenberg
     Mikulski
     Murkowski
     Nelson (FL)
     Rockefeller
  The nomination was confirmed.

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