How the Senate Voted on Rehnquist
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WASHINGTON — How members of the Senate voted Wednesday night in approving William H. Rehnquist as the new chief justice of the United States:
Republicans for--Abdnor (S.D.); Andrews (N.D.); Armstrong (Colo.); Boschwitz (Minn.); Broyhill (N.C.); Chafee (R.I.); Cochran (Miss.); Cohen (Me.); D’Amato (N.Y.); Danforth (Mo.); Denton (Ala.); Dole (Kan.); Domenici (N.M.); Durenberger (Minn.); Evans (Wash.); Gorton (Wash.); Gramm (Tex.); Grassley (Iowa); Hatch (Utah); Hatfield (Ore.); Hawkins (Fla.); Hecht (Nev.); Heinz (Pa.); Helms (N.C.); Humphrey (N.H.); Kassebaum (Kan.); Kasten (Wis); Laxalt (Nev.); Lugar (Ind.); Mattingly (Ga.); McClure, (Ida.); McConnell (Ky.); Murkowski (Alaska); Nickles (Okla.); Packwood (Ore.); Pressler (S.D.); Quayle (Ind.); Roth (Del.); Rudman (N.H.); Simpson (Wyo.); Specter (Pa.); Stafford (Vt.); Stevens (Alaska); Symms (Ida.); Thurmond (S.C.); Trible (Va.); Wallop (Wyo.); Warner (Va.); and Wilson (Calif.).
Democrats for: Bentsen (Tex.); Boren (Okla.); Bumpers (Ark.); Chiles (Fla.); DeConcini (Ariz.); Dixon (Ill.); Ford (Ky.); Heflin (Ala.); Hollings (S.C.); Johnston (La.); Long (La.); Nunn (Ga.); Proxmire (Wis.); Pryor (Ark.); Stennis (Miss.); and Zorinsky (Neb.).
Republicans against--Mathias (Md.); Weicker (Conn.).
Democrats against--Baucus (Mont.); Biden (Del.); Bingaman (N.M.); Bradley (N.J.); Burdick (N.D.); Byrd (W.Va.); Cranston (Calif.); Dodd (Conn.); Eagleton (Mo.); Exon (Neb.); Glenn (Ohio); Gore (Tenn.); Harkin (Iowa); Hart (Colo.); Inouye (Hawaii); Kennedy (Mass.); Kerry (Mass.); Leahy (Vt.); Lautenberg (N.J.); Levin (Mich.); Matsunaga (Hawaii); Melcher (Mont.); Metzenbaum (Ohio); Mitchell (Me.); Moynihan (N.Y.); Pell (R.I.); Riegle (Mich.); Rockefeller (W.Va.); Sarbanes (Md.); Sasser (Tenn.); and Simon (Ill.).
Not voting--Garn (R-Utah); Goldwater (R-Ariz.).
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